Red grouse
Category
Natural History / Taxidermy
Date
1903 - 1905
Materials
Display case of four taxidermy birds.
Measurements
485 x 863 x 317 mm
Order this imageCollection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 1271414.2
Summary
A red grouse in a taxidermy display containing three red grouse (one with outstretched wings) and one colour morph partridge in glass case.
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
Cannock Chase, 1903 - 5 (labelled)