Nest of the Starling Product:Framed picture 2nd August 1952

2nd August 1952

Figure 5 Fragarium elegans

Portrait of a man in Elizabethan dress with a lace ruff and beard

Shows the allied troops arriving just south of Kertch Bay in the Crimea

Nest of the Starling Product:Framed picture 2nd August 1952Study of a starling's nest Sturnus vulgaris, showing feathers incorporated into its construction and a clutch of five eggs. Plate 10 from book Sammlung von Nestern und Eyern verschiedener Vogel by Adam Ludwig Wirsing and Friedrich Christian Gunther (A L Wirsing, Nuremburg, 1772). Inscribed: 'Tab. X. Planche 10 de L'Etourneau. Stuhr. A. L. Wirsing excudit Norimberg. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772