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 1181057.6
Summary
The sixth 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 a large assortment of British and European birds in a glass case listed: a Great grey shrike, a Red-backed shrike, a Woodchat shrike, a pied Flycatcher, a Eurasian golden oriole, a Dipper, a Scaly thrush, a Rock thrush, a Mistle thrush, a Song thrush, a Redwing, a Fieldfare, a Blackbird, a Ring ouzel, a European robin, a Bluethroat, an Alpine accentor, a Nightingale, a Redstart, a Black redstart, a Stonechat, a Whinchat, a Wheatear, a Great reed warbler, a Reed warbler, a Grasshopper warbler, a Dartford warbler, a Whitethroat, a Lesser whitethroat, a Garden warbler, a Western orphean warbler, a Blackcap, a Wood warbler, a Willow warbler, a Common chiffchaff, a Common firecrest, a Wren, a Great tit, a Blue tit, a Bearded tit, a Crested tit, a Coal tit, a Long-tailed tit, two Waxwings (m/f), two White wagtails, a Grey wagtail, a Grey-headed wagtail, a Yellow wagtail, a Richard's pipit, a Tree pipit, a Meadow pipit, a Rock pipit, a Tawny pipit, a Shorelark, a Skylark, a Wood lark, a Crested lark, a Snow bunting, a Lapland bunting, two Common reed bunting, a Yellow bunting, a Cirl bunting, an Ortolan bunting, a Chaffinch, a Brambling, a Tree sparrow, a House Sparrow, a Hawfinch, a Greenfinch, a Goldfinch, a Redpoll, a Siskin, a Linnet, a Bullfinch, a Pine grosbeak, a Crossbill (slipped on perch resting on lower Crossbill), a Two-barred (or White-winged) crossbill, a Parrot crossbill, a Starling, and a Rosy starling.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Treasury on 21st March, 1963.
Makers and roles
probably Henry Shaw (London 1800 – Broxbourne 1873), taxidermist