Henry Ward: A Black Headed Gull case
late 19th century
54cm high by 67cm wide
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£1,000 - £1,500
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Henry Ward ran the
Ward family taxidermy business during the middle of the 19th Century. His
two sons took over the business and Rowland Ward rose to pre-eminence to become
one of the most famous names in taxidermy.
Henry Ward (1812-1878) had travelled to America
as a young man to serve as taxidermist to the illustrious bird artist John
James Audubon (1785-1851), and prepared many of the specimens on which Audubon
based the bird portraits for which he became so famous, and which were central
to his celebrated book The Birds of America (1827-1839). On
his return home, Henry Ward took over a taxidermy firm that operated in the
West End of London, and became a significant tradesman in his own right
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