A Group of Eight Mid-19thC Hand-Coloured Engravings of British Birds c.1857 antiques With the soul in the

With the soul in the shining eyes of him

Joanna’s unyielding quest for an elusive ideal and sheer dedication to her animals turns his all-consuming love to terror and he drives her away with his obsessive behaviour

earning the Distinguished Flying Cross

The treatment is more sparse here and Saint Anthony appears more defined than in

and shows a good amount of wear and weathering to the whole with lichen deposits having been outside for a good length of time

A Group of Eight Mid-19thC Hand-Coloured Engravings of British Birds c.1857 antiques With the soul in theOrigin: English Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1857 Height: 10. 75 Width: 7. 25 (each) The octet of early Victorian period engravings, with the finely executed hand colouring to each, being original illustrations published in 1857 in Henry Leonard Meyer's 'Illustrations of British Birds and Their Eggs', hailing from the middle of the nineteenth century and showing a wonderful and vibrant array of birds, each now framed for