Title

'The Swan, Goose and Duck', c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Caption

'The Swan, Goose and Duck', c1850. The central image is of the three different birds. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left): geese in a farmyard; shooting wild duck; goose quills for writing pens; handles for artist's brushes; feather mattresses; swans and ducks on a pond at the Ornithological Society's premises in Regent's Park, London; swansdown for fashionable trimmings; geese at a market. From Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man published by Thomas Varty. (London, c1850).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1850

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B66_292

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,8Mb) / 14,9in x 13,0in / 4473 x 3905 (300dpi)

Keywords

park building buildings London England agriculture food people pond geese goose bird birds swan market farm trade British geography shooting color colour hunting feathers hunter duck ducks feather location Victorian century Britain mattress farmyard 19th century nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive geographical feature Regent's Park Royal Ornithological Society TGN wildfowl wildfowler wildfowling lithograph Thomas Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Thomas Varty Varty Hawkins Benjamin Waterhouse Thomas Varty lithograph