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

'Bellows to Mend'

'The City Tonsor'

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

smoking and drinking

28th June 1982

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