Cock pheasant
attributed to B. Higgs
Category
Natural History / Taxidermy
Date
Nov 1907
Materials
Display case containing a taxidermy semi-albino cock pheasant
Measurements
498 mm (Height) x 192 mm (Depth); 778 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Lostwithiel
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 884893
Summary
A taxidermy display case containing a stuffed semi-albino cock pheasant in a naturalistic setting with painted scene background. By Higgs of Lostwithiel.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust for display at Lanhydrock by Cecil Hoskin, 25 September 2007. Mr. Hoskin's father had been Head Gamekeeper on the Lanhydrock estate. Mr. Hoskin remembers seeing this pheasant in the house prior to the family moving there and it had remained in the family until he made a gift of it to the National Trust.
Marks and inscriptions
(on printed label on back of case) B. HIGGS/(handwritten in ink) Artistic / TAXIDERMIST,/FORE STREET, LOSTWITHIEL./ (handwritten in ink) Nov. 1907
Makers and roles
attributed to B. Higgs, taxidermist