Nest of the Grey partridge Norwich School 'A View at Battersea'

'A View at Battersea'

It had been produced with the 1976 season in mind

Spectators can just be seen in the bottom left corner

Going to the Country

Nest of the Grey partridge Norwich School 'A View at Battersea'Study of a partridge's nest, presumably the grey partridge Perdix perdix showing grasses incorporated into its construction and containing a clutch of eleven eggs. Plate 46 from book Sammlung von Nestern und Eyern verschiedener Vogel by Adam Ludwig Wirsing and Friedrich Christian Gunther (A L Wirsing, Nuremburg, 1772). Inscribed: 'Tab. XLVI Pl. 46 du la Perdrix. Rephuhn. A. L. Wirsing excudit Norimberg.' Original: copperplate engraving. 1772