Nest of the Grey partridge Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 'Bellows to Mend'

'Bellows to Mend'

Standing on a street corner

Fox is at his right hand and the Duke of Bedford is in the foreground

Gladwen Owen and Nancy Griffiths dressed in Welsh costume and bonnets for the Battersea Easter parade

Nest of the Grey partridge Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 'Bellows to Mend'Study of a partridge's nest, presumably the grey partridge Perdix perdix showing grasses incorporated into its construction and containing a clutch of eleven eggs. Plate 46 from book Sammlung von Nestern und Eyern verschiedener Vogel by Adam Ludwig Wirsing and Friedrich Christian Gunther (A L Wirsing, Nuremburg, 1772). Inscribed: 'Tab. XLVI Pl. 46 du la Perdrix. Rephuhn. A. L. Wirsing excudit Norimberg.' Original: copperplate engraving. 1772