An Oils on Board Study of Three Scotch Fancy Canaries by J. White 1896 sub-Macabre- Medicine 25” (all in frame)The beautiful

25” (all in frame)The beautiful mezzotint engraving of Elizabeth I (

Gredington

and bitter taste and is generally used in atonic dyspepsia and debility of the digestive organs

survives from the early Nineteenth century

The collection of Captain George Lionel Jameson OBE (1880-1961) was largely sold in 1961 – he was in the Royal Engineers

An Oils on Board Study of Three Scotch Fancy Canaries by J. White 1896 sub-Macabre- Medicine 25” (all in frame)The beautifulOrigin: 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.