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    18th Century Material Culture

    The Pet Bird


    Pet Birds
    Mthilde de Canisy
    by Jean - Marc Nattier, Portraitist for the Family of King Louis XV 1738
    (Jacquemart - Andre Museum - Institut de France)
    “Thrice happy Bird...”
    by Thomas Burford, After Alexis Grimou 1740
    (The British Museum)
    John Gerry of Massachusetts
    by Joseph Badger 1745
    (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
    Sir Edward Walpole's Children
    by Stephen Slaughter 1747
    (The Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
    John Creswell of Northumberland Holding a Yellow Bird
    English School Mid 18th Century
    (NorthEast Auctions)
    A Young Lady Holding a Bird
    by Phillipe Mercier c. 1750 - 1755
    (Government Art Collection - English Embassy, Seoul, South Korea)
    A Young Lady Holding a Bird
    by Phillipe Mercier Mid 18th Century
    (Dumfries Museum)
    A Young Man Holding a Bird
    Mid 18th Century
    (Comer & Co.)
    Le Repos
    by Jean - François Colson, Dijon 1759
    (Musée des Beaux-Arts)
    Miss Jane Monck
    by Joseph Wright of Derby c. 1760
    (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle)
    Marie-Louise de Bourbon (1745 - 1792) with Her Pet Bird
    by Tiepolo Lorenzo c. 1763
    (Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais)
    A Young Girl with a Dove
    by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 - 1797)
    (Fergus Hall Master Paintings)
    Elizabeth Ross (Mrs. William Tyng)
    by John Singleton Copley 1766
    (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
    Young French Girl Holding a Parrot
    by Antoine Raspal (1738 - 1811)
    (Blouin Art Auctions)
    Thomas Aston Coffin with Battledore and Shuttlecock
    by John Singleton Copley c. 1766
    (National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa)
    Mary Boylston (Mrs. Benjamin Hallowell)
    by John Singleton Copley c. 1766 - 1767 
    (Detroit Institute of Arts)
    “LE PETIT”
    by Pieter Willem van Megen, After Pierre Alexandre Wile c. 1768 - 1785
    (The British Museum)
    “The Happy Consultation, or Modern Match.”
    by James Roberts, Published by Robert Sayer 1769
    (The British Museum)
    A Cild with a Bird on a String
    by James Peale c. 1770 - 1775
    (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
    Francis Graham
    by Tiley Kettle c. 1774
    (Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries)
    A Girl in a Green Dress Holding a Red Parrot
    Mid - Late 18th Century
    (York Museums Trust)
    Molly Wales Forbes
    by Rufus Hathaway c. 1790
    (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    Pet Owls
    “Wat baet keers off bril, als den Wl niet sienen wil.”
    by Cornelis Bloemaert, After Hendrik Bloemaert c. 1625
    (The British Museum)
    “The OWL FACE”
    London, Printed for Robt. Sayer No. 53 in Fleet Street 1775
    (Sanders of Oxford)
    Bird Merchants
    The Cryes of London “Buy a fine singing Bird”
    by Pierce Tempest, After Marcellus Laroon II 1688
    (The British Museum)
    The Cryes of London “Buy a fine singing Bird”
    by Pierce Tempest, After Marcellus Laroon II 1688
    (The British Museum)
    Trade Card for Grainger, Purveyor of Birds
    London, c. 1760
    (The British Museum)
    Trade Card for Joshua Brooks
    London 1779
    (The British Museum)
    Wicker
    Bird Cages
    “DUTCH CAROUSAL.”
    by Robert Sayer, After David Teniers the Younger c. 1760 - 1799
    (The British Museum)
    “DUTCH CAROUSAL.”
    by Robert Sayer, After David Teniers the Younger c. 1760 - 1799
    (The British Museum)
    “SECUR’D FROM FLIGHT”
    by Robert Sayer, After Abraham Bloemaert c. 1765 - 1775
    (The British Museum)
    A Girl Bundling Asparagus
    by John Atkinson 1771
    (Yale Center for British Art)
    “COBLER’S HALL”
    by Carington Bowles 1775
    (Lewis Walpole Library)
    “COBLER’S HALL”
    by Carington Bowles 1775
    (Lewis Walpole Library)
    “TIGHT LACING or the COBLER’S WIFE in the FASHION”
    by William Hitchcock 1777
    (Lewis Walpole Library)
    The Rustic Lover
    by Francis Wheatley 1786
    (Yale Center for British Art)
    Box Shaped
    Bird Cages
    Dutch Interior of a Mother Attending Her Children
    by Willem van Mieris c. 1728
    (Private Collection)
    A French Girl Feeding a Bird
    by Jean Raoux Montpelier (1677 - 1734 Paris)
    (Christie’s)
    A Young Lady with a Birdcage, and a Boy with a Bird Nest
    by Antoine Pesne (Paris 1683 - 1757 Berlin)
    (Christie’s)
    Madame Baudouin
    by François Boucher (1703 - 1770)
    (Musee Cognacq-Jay - Paris)
    The Bird Catchers
    by François Boucher 1748
    (J. Paul Getty Museum)
    The Bird Catchers
    by François Boucher 1748
    (J. Paul Getty Museum)
    The Bird Catchers
    by François Boucher 1748
    (J. Paul Getty Museum)
    The Bird Catchers
    by François Boucher 1748
    (J. Paul Getty Museum)
    Study
    by François Boucher
    (Private Collection)
    A Lady Leaning on a Birdcage
    by François Boucher (1703 - 1770)
    (Christie’s)
    “L’Oiseau Chéri.”
    Gravure de Daullé d’après un Dessin de Boucher 1758
    (Private Collection)
    Alexandrine Lenormand d’Etiolles Feeding a Bird
    by François Boucher c. 1749
    (Sotheby’s)
    A Young French Lady with a Bird
    Mid 18th Cenyury
    (Private Collection)
    Girl with a Birdcage
    by Jean-Frédéric Schall (1752-1825) - Late 18th Century
    (Victoria & Albert)
    Arch Topped
    Bird Cages
    The Boy with the Bird Cage
    by Caspar Netscher 1665
    (National Trust - The Drawing Room at Knightshayes Court)
    The Schoolmaster
    by William Pether c. 1760 - 1780
    (The British Museum)
    “La Fleuriste” / “The Florist”
    by Antoine de Marcenay de Ghuy, After Gerard Dou 1764
    (The British Museum)
    Dutch Tin Glazed Earthenware Tiles
    18th Century
    (National Museum of Scotland)
    Dutch Tin Glazed Polychrome Birdcage Plaque
    18th Century
    (Van Nie Antiquairs)
    Dutch Tin Glazed Polychrome Birdcage Plaque
    18th Century
    (Christie’s)
    Leonora & Leander
    by Robert Sayer 1773
    (The British Museum)
    Leonora & Leander
    by Robert Sayer 1773
    (The British Museum)
    “WINTER”
    by Carington Bowles 1783
    (The British Museum)
    “WINTER”
    by Carington Bowles 1783
    (The British Museum)
    “The SINGING BIRD.”
    by Carington Bowles 1781
    (The British Museum)
    “The SINGING BIRD.”
    by Carington Bowles 1781
    (The British Museum)
    “INDUSTRY.”
    by Carington Bowles c. 1780 - 1790
    (The British Museum)
    Dome Topped
    Bird Cages
    French Lady with a Parrot
    by Abraham Bosse Mid 17th Century
    (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    Dutch Girl at a Window with a Parrot
    by Caspar Netscher 1666
    (The British Museum)
    Dutch Girl at a Window with a Parrot
    by Caspar Netscher 1666
    (Von der Heydt Museum)
    Dutch Girl at a Window with Birds
    by Pieter van der Werff c. 1710
    (Daphne Alazraki Fine Art, New York)
    Illustration to Gay’s “Fables”
    by Gerard van der Gucht, After John Wootton c. 1727 - 1776
    (The British Museum)
    Illustration to Gay’s “Fables”
    by Gerard van der Gucht, After John Wootton c. 1727 - 1776
    (The British Museum)
    “The Escaped Bird”
    by Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690 - 1743)
    (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
    “The Escaped Bird”
    by Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690 - 1743)
    (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
    A Book Illustration
    by Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin II, Published by John Knapton, After Gravelot, 1738
    (The British Museum)
    A Book Illustration
    by Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin II, Published by John Knapton, After Gravelot, 1738
    (The British Museum)
    The Children of Daniel Graham, Apothecary to King George II
    by William Hogarth 1742
    (National Gallery of Art)
    “The FRENCH Bird KICK’D into a CAGE: An Emblematical PRINT.”
    London 1745
    (The British Museum)
    Three Young Ladies with a Parrot in a Cage
    by Joseph Melling (1724 - 1796)
    (Bonhams)
    “LE CHAT ET LES DEUX MOINEAUX. Fable CCXV.”
    1778
    (Private Collection)
    A Lady at Her Organ with a Bird
    by Jean- Baptiste Simeon Chardin 1753
    (The Frick Collection)
    “The Lady instructing her Favorite Bird”
    London, After Jean- Baptiste Simeon Chardin c. 1766
    (The British Museum)
    “The Lady instructing her Favorite Bird”
    London, After Jean- Baptiste Simeon Chardin c. 1766
    (The British Museum)
    Mrs. Ann Fairchild Bowler, Wife of Newport, Rhode Island, Merchant, Metcalf Bowler
    by John Singleton Copley 1758
    (Colby College Museum of Art)
    Mrs. Ann Fairchild Bowler, Wife of Newport, Rhode Island, Merchant, Metcalf Bowler
    by John Singleton Copley 1758
    (Colby College Museum of Art)
    “The FAIR LADY working TAMBOUR.”
    by Carington Bowles 1764
    (The British Museum)
    “The FAIR LADY working TAMBOUR.”
    by Carington Bowles 1764
    (The British Museum)
    Archduchess Maria Teresa of Austria with a Caged Parrot
    by Anton Raphael Mengsc c. 1765
    (Private Collection)
    Reverend Thomas D’Oyly & His Wife, Henrietta Maria
    by Arthur Devis
    (Sotheby’s)
    Reverend Thomas D’Oyly & His Wife, Henrietta Maria
    by Arthur Devis
    (Sotheby’s)
    “CATTULUS AND LESBIA.”
    by John Keyse Sherwin, Published by Thomas Watson, After Angelica Kauffman 1784
    (The British Museum)
    “Happy Family...”
    by Thomas Berwick 1785
    (The British Museum)
    A Book Illustration
    by Thomas Berwick 1785
    (The British Museum)
    French Birdcage
    18th - Early 19th Century
    (Alhambra Antiques)
    American Birdcage with Rosehead Nails
    Late 18th - Early 19th Century
    (Gould Auctions)
    Miscellaneous
    Bird Cages
    Dutch Tin Glazed Earthenware Tiles
    18th Century
    (Willet - Holthuysen Museum)
    Dutch Tin Glazed Polychrome Birdcage Plaque
    Mid 18th Century
    (Sotheby’s)
    European Birdcage
    18th - Early 19th Century
    (Kevin Stone Antiques)
    Dutch Birdcage
    18th - Early 19th Century
    (Cooper - Hewitt / Smithsonian Institution)
    A Young Lady by a Birdcage
    by Jean - Baptiste Charpentier (1728 - 1806)
    (Private Collection)
    Mechanical
    Birdcages
    Gilt Bronze & Enamel Bird Cage & Clock with Mechanical Bird that Sings 7 Tunes on the Hour & Half Hour
    by Pierre Jaquet Droz, Genève c. 1780
    (Antiquorum)
    Gilt Bronze & Enamel Bird Cage & Clock with Mechanical Bird that Sings on the Hour & Half Hour
    On Display at the Syon House of England 18th Century
    (Rhodes/Syon Park)
    Bird
    Houses
    American Lead Glazed Earthenware Bird House or Bird Bottle from Virginia
    by William Rogers of Yorktown, Virginia c. 1725 - 1750
    (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
    Acknowledgements

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