20th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST

The James Harrison Collection of Birds

 
  Lot 55
 

55

Taxidermy: A Late Victorian Cased Red-Legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa), dated 1889, by Henry James Burton, 191 Wardour Street, London, a full mount adult stood upon a painted faux rock, amidst a natural setting of heather, ferns and grasses, mounted above pebbled groundwork beneath, set against a watercolour painted evening sky back drop, enclosed within a typical period ebonised three-glass display case, 36.5cm by 20cm by 36cm, bearing label to interior lower left - England, Red-legged Partridge, shot near Rye, in Sussex, on October 2nd, 1889, by T. Parkin.

Sold for £320
Estimated at £180 - £280


 

Auction: The James Harrison Collection of Birds, 20th May, 2022

The James Harrison Collection comprises over 200 lots of cased and freemount birds dating from the late Victorian era to the middle of the 20th century. The collection includes rare and unusual examples, such as a passenger pigeon and a kiwi, as well as mounts by the likes of Rowland Ward, James Gardner, Charles Kirk and George Bristow. 

James Maurice Harrison (1892-1971) was an ornithologist and one of the last great bird collectors, who gathered large numbers of specimens to study moult patterns, distribution, geographical and colour variation within and between species. A GP by profession, Harrison filled his family home and Doctor's Surgery, Bowerwood House in Kent, with his extraordinary collection. 

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