BY ISAAC SPACKMAN, CIRCA 1764

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A GEORGE III EMBOSSED BIRD PICTURE
BY ISAAC SPACKMAN, CIRCA 1764
A Ouapoke perched on a branch, in a later pink-painted and parcel-gilt frame, signed lower right 'Spackman. Pinxit London 1765' and with handwritten label to the reverse 'Ouapoke this rare bird was the first of the kind seen in England and has not been described by any of our Natural Historians it.... from South America'
15½ x 13 in. (39.5 x 33 cm.)

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Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 17 June 1993, lot 30.

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This subject appears to be unrecorded and the inscription suggests that it had not previously been used by Spackman's Irish predecessor, Samuel Dixon. The date and rarity suggest that it is one of the very last pictures from Spackman's set of single bird-pictures issued from 1764.