Nest of the Grey partridge Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 'The City Tonsor'

'The City Tonsor'

also Timothy Sheldrake (1729-1800) made his living as a truss-maker but would be too young to have authored this paper

Gladwen Owen and Nancy Griffiths dressed in Welsh costume and bonnets for the Battersea Easter parade

28th June 1982

North-east view of the Church of St Leonard

Nest of the Grey partridge Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 'The City Tonsor'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