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THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION: "LINNETS DEFENDING THEIR NEST AGAINST A DORMOUSE"..., 1862. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
The International Exhibition: "Linnets Defending their Nest against a Dormouse", modelled in wax by A. Cain, 1862. 'The title of this most elaborate and delicately-executed model suggests a furious and perhaps prolonged struggle between antagonists curiously but not very unequally matched...Our linnet and common wild species of dormouse are respectively among the smallest of birds and quadrupeds...The action of the little creatures is given with immense spirit. The great loir, crouching and persistent, has broken down one side of the nest and already cracked two or three eggs; but the so-called linnets, especially the female, will not be scared away, but flutter over and cling to it, and with all the feathers of their polls on end, and screaming from their little throats, usually so melodious, and attacking with their sharp little beaks the heartless thief, defend it to the last extremity. The delicacy and minuteness of the work, and the truth of the textural imitation, are, however, still more surprising. The feathers of the little birds, the coat of the loir, every twig and filament of the nest, and every ramification of fibre in the ivy, are imitated with marvellous accuracy'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862. The International Exhibition: "Linnets Defending their Nest against a Dormouse"..., 1862. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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THE STATUE OF SIR HUGH MYDDELTON AT ISLINGTON-GREEN, SCULPTURED BY THE LATE JOHN THOMAS, 1862. CREATOR: MASON JACKSON.
The Statue of Sir Hugh Myddelton at Islington-green [in London], sculptured by the late John Thomas, 1862. '...a fine public monument...to the memory of the great engineer, who, triumphing over the most formidable obstacles, succeeded early in the seventeenth century in diverting a river from its natural channel and conducting it many miles to the high-lying district north of London, for the purpose of supplying a large portion of the metropolis with water. It is needless to refer to the importance of adequate water supply in large towns...a most graceful recognition of this fact has been shown by...the introduction of a drinking-fountain as part of the memorial...The statue...is in Sicilian marble...Sir Hugh is dressed in the quaint and stiff but still...picturesque costume of the latter part of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century - Flanders ruff and cuffs, doublet and jerkin, a cloak of Elizabethan amplitude, trunk hose [and] breeches...In his left hand he holds a scroll containing a plan of his great and useful work, labelled with the words "New River."...The late John Thomas was an architectural designer as well as sculptor, - hence his unique and unrivalled success in the design of this monument'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862. The Statue of Sir Hugh Myddelton at Islington-green, sculptured by the late John Thomas, 1862. Creator: Mason Jackson. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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