Textile
Nixon & Co., 1705 - 1765
1751â56
Classification
printed, dyed & painted textiles
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Elizabeth G. Holahan
Accession Number
1974-31-1
About this artwork
Plate print in red on a white ground. Main motif includes a momument supporting an urn containing a large leafed plant, a cockatoo seated at the base of the monument, a sheep standing in in front of another pedestal in the background; a tall tree with a flowering vine twined around its trunk, a cockatoo perched on a branch of the tree. A second small motif has a country cottage with 2 sheep grazing in the foreground and a birdhouse behind the house. A third motif has a cockatoo in a tree stump e...