Nests of the Goldfinch and the Robin Size:XL: 90 x 60cm Jubilee Venetian masquerade ball in

Jubilee Venetian masquerade ball in Ranelagh Gardens

either through accident or sickness

The image is a satire on the lavishness of civic hospitality

View of Vauxhall Gardens

Nests of the Goldfinch and the Robin Size:XL: 90 x 60cm Jubilee Venetian masquerade ball inTwo studies of birds' nests. Figure 1, the nest of the goldfinch Carduelis carduelis containing a clutch of five eggs. Figure 2 the nest of the European robin Erithacus rubecula containing a clutch of seven eggs. Plate 3 from book Sammlung von Nestern und Eyern verschiedener Vogel by Adam Ludwig Wirsing and Friedrich Christian Gunther (A L Wirsing, Nuremburg, 1772). Inscribed: 'Tab. III. Stigelliz. Planche 3. Fig, 1 du Chardonneret. Rothkehlein. Fig.