Tern
Category
Natural History / Taxidermy
Date
Unknown
Materials
Display case with taxidermy terns
Measurements
570 x 770 x 300 mm
Order this imageCollection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1400315
Summary
Display case containing eight stuffed Terns. Case 37.
Full description
Conservation 2024: Property- Felbrigg, Norfolk The diorama contains 8 taxidermy birds and are a species of Terns. They are part of the Windham collection and from Felbrigg in Norfolk where there is a display of other significant works by some well-known taxidermists from the 19th Century. The diorama was made by the taxidermist C.B.Dack. Charles Dack of Holt in North Norfolk. Charles Dack ran a tobacconist's shop for approximately 40 years and some of this information is depicted on a label at the back of the diorama. Dack was significant in Norfolk and his work is also represented in the Booth Museum in Brighton. The diorama dates from approximately the middle to late nineteenth century and the terns are a common species of Sterna hirundo, found inland in North Norfolk and are a species related to gulls.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)