Red deer head
Category
Natural History / Taxidermy
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oak mount with taxidermy red deer head
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533585.6
Summary
Oak mount with taxidermy red deer head.
Full description
Taxidermy red deer stags head mounted on a wide dark wooden shield. Mounted with a large section of the neck, head looks towards the right. Long, wide antlers with brow and bey tine to the front, a trey tine from the main beam on each side. The left antler has four crown tines and the right antler has three crown tines, one of which forks into two points. 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.