Nest of the Grey partridge Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Standing on a street corner

Standing on a street corner

28th June 1982

also Timothy Sheldrake (1729-1800) made his living as a truss-maker but would be too young to have authored this paper

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

The former Conservative Prime Minister died on 19th April 1881

Nest of the Grey partridge Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Standing on a street cornerStudy 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