'A Feather of the Cassowary' Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Jubilee Venetian masquerade ball in

Jubilee Venetian masquerade ball in Ranelagh Gardens

c1857-1903

Early examples had the split windscreen

New Palace Yard and the entrance to Westminster Hall

'A Feather of the Cassowary' Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Jubilee Venetian masquerade ball inStudies of a cassowary feather and native Australian fish hooks. The latter are represented as: Figure A 'of a hard black, wood like substance'; and Figure B 'a hook of mother of pearl'. Plate 62 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'The feathers of the New Holland Cassowary are of a remarkable construction It seems incapable of resisting water, or of holding air.' The