It strikes me that it is not English. Got taken away by phone & see I'm joining a movement.
Irrelevant, but, apart from other considerations, design-wise, I like it. If it had been handed down to me, I would cherish it.
It looks large enough to be a fire screen! Not one of those little hide-it-in-your-hand jobs. Beautiful.
Since he also did magazine illustration, this is presumably one he did showing a display he worked on for a museum publication.
Don't want to take this thread too far off track. Fans are interesting and, as with so much else, there are jaw-dropping examples out there....
His dioramas are the background paintings he did for the AMNH & preumably Cranbrook. They give the illusion that the taxidermied animals are in...
I'm most often looking at Italian things, which may also use use 'dip.' instead of 'pinx'. Here's a short list of common abbreviations used on...
Would the ornamentation on some old houses I always heard called fret work actually have been done with one of the other types of saws?
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Not for the first, or last, time, misread a picture. If those are tails, peacocks they are. Celebration of beauty over brains. One spring, when...
Walter's item has only the one square hole, which would not allow anything to twist. [Edit] What fit in the square hole would have to have a rod...
Think bottom rules out use for cooking. I see the other photo. What are we looking at?
Do they not have any native birds other than peacocks? I have to think this is something that gets around by flying more than walking.
Odd that it would say 'Sculp'? 'Inc.' is the more usual abbreviation to designate the engraver.
Could you set it on a flame?
Ya ain't convincing me. :happy: Stylized as it is, this one still indicates the mating season plumage, doesn't have the thick down turned...
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