Great Reed Warbler and its nest Finish:Single 8th December 1958

8th December 1958

as an auctioneer

The sitter is depicted full-faced and wigged against clouds and woodland

'River Scene'

Great Reed Warbler and its nest Finish:Single 8th December 1958Plate 1 from the paper 'An account of an English bird of the genus Motacilla, supposed to be hitherto unnoticed by British ornithologists', by John Lightfoot, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 75 (1785), pp. 8 15. Study of the bird classified and described by John Lightfoot FRS (1735 1788) clergyman and naturalist in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, as Motacilla arundinacea [Acrocephalus arundinaceus]. The bird is shown nesting in a