Golden pheasant
Category
Natural History / Taxidermy
Date
circa 1870 - circa 1899
Materials
A wooden framed and glass panelled display case containing a taxidermy phesant and vegetal
Measurements
502 x 838 x 190 mm
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884825
Summary
A taxidermy display case. A stuffed male Lady Amherst's-golden pheasant cross (?), mounted in a naturalistic setting, and contained in a glass fronted display case. From the Late 19th Century.
Provenance
Gift of the Hon Victor Agar-Robartes, later 8th Viscount Clifden, (See 1972 inventory), the elder brother of the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, later 7th Viscount Clifden,who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953 and continued to live there until his death in 1966