Taxidermy display
probably Henry Shaw (London 1800 – Broxbourne 1873)
Category
Natural History / Taxidermy
Date
1850
Materials
Display case with taxidermy birds
Measurements
Height 4000 mm.; Width 1080 mm.; Width 1410 mm.
Place of origin
Shrewsbury
Order this imageCollection
Powis Castle and Garden, Powys
NT 1181057.13
Summary
The thirteenth of eighteen taxidermy display cases containing stuffed birds. Most of the birds date from c.1850, and the oak cases were probably made by Henry Shaw, Shrewsbury (1812-1887). This display case contains British coastal and diving birds, including a common merganser (or goosander), a red-breasted merganser, two smew (male and female), a razorbill, a common guillemot, two black guillemot (winter and summer), a little auk, a puffin, a great northern loon (or great northern diver), a black-throated diver, a great crested grebe, a black-necked grebe, two little grebe with chicks, a cormorant, and a shag.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Treasury on 21st March, 1963.
Makers and roles
probably Henry Shaw (London 1800 – Broxbourne 1873), taxidermist