An Oils on Board Study of Three Scotch Fancy Canaries by J. White 1896 sub-Macabre- Medicine the heavy cotton flag

the heavy cotton flag

survives from the early Nineteenth century

whether than be in art

a golden fess dancetty

An Oils on Board Study of Three Scotch Fancy Canaries by J. White 1896 sub-Macabre- Medicine the heavy cotton flagOrigin: 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.