Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Cased Diorama of British Birds, dated...

Lot Description:

Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Cased Diorama of British Birds, dated 1874, by H. Crook, Castle Street, Salisbury ,a group of river birds comprising Moorhen, Kingfisher and Little Grebe, all mounted amidst a natural setting of dry grasses, brush and fauna, set against a watercolour painted interior, enclosed within a typical period ebonised single-glass display case, 51cm by 14cm by 36cm, bearing taxidermist's full paper trade label to interior top left panel, dated 1874.

Condition Report:
. horizontal crack across the back panel, 09/06/21