Carolina Brown Squirrel with Birds, Butterflies and Flowers
Sarah Lethieullier, Lady Fetherstonhaugh (d.1788)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1754
Materials
Watercolour on parchment
Measurements
303 x 383 mm
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 138308.2
Summary
Watercolour on parchment, Carolina Brown Squirrel with Birds, Butterflies and Flowers, by Sarah Lethieullier, Lady Fetherstonhaugh (1722-1788). Initialled and dated 1754. The keys, in Sara Fetherstonhaugh's hand, list the animals and plants she portrayed 'in their natural size'. The mid-eighteenth-century plan of the garden includes a menagerie. (From a set of five.)
Marks and inscriptions
y (initialled)
Makers and roles
Sarah Lethieullier, Lady Fetherstonhaugh (d.1788), artist
