Red deer head
Category
Natural History / Taxidermy
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oak mount with taxidermy red deer head
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533585.4
Summary
Oak mount with taxidermy red deer head.
Full description
Taxidermy red deer stags head mounted on a carved wooden shield. The wooden shield has carved scroll-like, winged sections to each side. Long, wide antlers with brow and bey tine to the front, a trey tine from the main beam and three crown tines on each side. One of fourteen taxidermy red deer heads
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.