A still life of a Paeony in a bottle with bird's nest with eggs
A still life of a Paeony in a bottle with bird's nest with eggs
William Henry Hunt O.W.S. (1790-1864)
A Still-life with a Bird's Nest and Paeonia in a Bottle
Signed and dated lower right: 1833/W HUNT
Watercolour heightened with scratching out and gum arabic
37.8 by 26 cm., 15 by 10 ¼ in.
John Witt states that Hunt mainly depicted chaffinch nests with mottled brown and white eggs or hedge sparrows with bright blue eggs.