An Oils on Board Study of Three Scotch Fancy Canaries by J. White 1896 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope German Ostrich Fern 46

German Ostrich Fern 46

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practices introduced by the French Benedictines

the design of French influence

An Oils on Board Study of Three Scotch Fancy Canaries by J. White 1896 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope German Ostrich Fern 46Origin: BritishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1896Height: 15. 25Width: 13Depth: 1. 25 (in frame)The beautifully balanced oil on panel, depicting three scotch fancy or Glasgow dons, being a particular breed of canary, each sat on perches and in profile to a dark ocre ground, and signed and dated lower right J. White 1896, the whole presented in a later gilded and glazed frame and surviving from the zeniths of the Victorian period.