A GROUP OF SEVEN GEORGIAN EMBOSSED BIRD PICTURES

FIVE ATTRIBUTED TO ISAAC SPACKMAN, CIRCA 1754-1764, TWO THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GROUP OF SEVEN GEORGIAN EMBOSSED BIRD PICTURES
Five attributed to Isaac Spackman, Circa 1754-1764, two third quarter 18th Century
Including a black and white speckled bird and a golden pheasant with a long tail, the reverse faintly inscribed in 18th Century hand and extended at bottom, a parrot, a macaw and a parakeet, with a partial printed paper label to reverse LON...L'D PARAKEET is a Native of the West Indies and was the property of the Lady of the Late Sir C. Wagner, together with a pair in oval frames, one depicting an African stork and another bird, set in a landscape with butterflies, inscribed to reverse in 18th Century hand The...Damset(?) or African Stork/and pink bird and one depicting a Bengal Bee-Eater, set in a landscape with a butterfly and a caterpillar, inscribed to reverse in 18th century hand The Bengal Bee-Eater, all in giltwood frames, some repainting to all
The larger 13¼ x 10¾in. (34 x 27cm.), overall
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Lot Essay

Three of the models are identified as Spackman's in Ada K. Longfield, "More about Samuel Dixon and His Imitators", Irish Georgian Society Bulletin, Vol. 23, Issues 1 and 2, the golden pheasant from the 1754 set, p. 28, fig. 23 and the parakeet and macaw from the 1764 set, pp. 24 and 27, figs. 19 and 22.

A pair of embossed bird-pictures attributed to Spackman was sold anonymously, Christie's London, 15 November 1990, lot 12 (£7,150, including premium).

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