Great crested grebe
H. Shaw
Category
Natural History / Taxidermy
Date
1874
Materials
Display case of taxidermy birds
Measurements
605 x 424 x 247 mm
Place of origin
Shrewsbury
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1271410
Summary
A taxidermy display containing a Juvenile Great Crested Grebe in a glass case. Case signed in bottom corner 'H Shaw, Salop, '74'.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust with Shugborough’s park and contents of the state rooms, in part-payment of death-duties to the Treasury, following the death of Thomas, 4th Earl of Lichfield (1883 - 1960).
Marks and inscriptions
Case signed in bottom corner 'H Shaw, Salop, '74'.
Makers and roles
H. Shaw, taxidermist