Taxidermy display
probably Henry Shaw (London 1800 – Broxbourne 1873)
Category
Natural History / Taxidermy
Date
1850
Materials
Display case with thirty-eight 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 1181057.18
Summary
The last of eighteen taxidermy display cases containing stuffed birds (case 18). Most of the birds date from c.1850, and the oak cases were probably made by Henry Shaw, Shrewsbury (1812-1887). This case contains thirty-eight mostly Indian birds including: two Himalayan monals (male and female), an Indian roller, three White-throated kingfishers, a Coucal, three Plum-headed parakeets, a bronze-winged Cuckoo, an Oriole, a Jungle cock (or Grey junglewfowl?), two Pittas, a Paradise Flycatcher, an African Carmine bee-eater, a Central American motmot and from New Guinea: a Lesser bird-of-paradise and a King bird-of-paradise.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Treasury on 21st March, 1963.
Makers and roles
probably Henry Shaw (London 1800 – Broxbourne 1873), taxidermist