SIX GEORGE II IRISH EMBOSSED PICTURES by Samuel Dixon in basso relievo, five depicting the Peahen Chinese pheasant, the Quan, the Peacock Chinese pheasant, the Chinese golden pheasant, and a Chinese black and white cock pheasant and hen, one picture a flower group of auricula, carnations and others, each in a George III beaded moulded giltwood slip frame, one inscribed to the reverse GH., one with label to the reverse J.MORRELLINI & Co/(from Italy)/Artificial Flower prints & Ladies Tambour Work, elegantly Fram'd & Glazed/with Expedition, with restorations

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SIX GEORGE II IRISH EMBOSSED PICTURES by Samuel Dixon in basso relievo, five depicting the Peahen Chinese pheasant, the Quan, the Peacock Chinese pheasant, the Chinese golden pheasant, and a Chinese black and white cock pheasant and hen, one picture a flower group of auricula, carnations and others, each in a George III beaded moulded giltwood slip frame, one inscribed to the reverse GH., one with label to the reverse J.MORRELLINI & Co/(from Italy)/Artificial Flower prints & Ladies Tambour Work, elegantly Fram'd & Glazed/with Expedition, with restorations
10¾ x 8¾in. (27.5 x 22cm.) and one smaller (5)

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The five bird pictures are from Samuel Dixon's 1750 series of Foreign Birds and the small flower group is from his 1748 group of flowers only. All are discussed in Ada K. Longfield, Samuel Dixon's Embossed Pictures of Flowers and Birds, The Quaterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, October 1975.

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