
Pair of Chelsea Greater Spotted Cuckoos, Circa .1750.
Further images
Rare pair of Chelsea Great Spotted Cuckoos, their plumage in puce, brown, yellow and black, perched astride tree-stumps applied with coloured flowers.
Red anchor (Raised) mark
Rare pair of Chelsea Great Spotted Cuckoos, their plumage in puce, brown, yellow and black, perched astride tree-stumps applied with coloured flowers.
Red anchor (Raised) mark
Literature
Dr Yvonne Hackenbroch, Irwin Untermyer Collection, pl.8, fig. 16.Taken from George Edwards `National History of Uncommon
Birds’, (London 1743-47). Vol II pl. 57.