Kestrel hawk, butcher bird, and coltsfoot plant
Created by James Batsford
Date: 1851
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Material: wood - lime
Technique: carved
Description: The kestrel hawk (Falco tinnunculus) and butcher bird (Lanius), represented on a bank of earth, from which is springing the coltsfoot plant (Tussilago Farfara); executed from a single block of lime-tree.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (London), 1851
1851
Citing this record
'Kestrel hawk, butcher bird, and coltsfoot plant', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib7_1206621651, accessed 09 Jun 2023]
