Emma Hawkins: A Natural World
Emma Hawkins: A Natural World
Lady Cust's Great Auk egg
An egg of the Extinct Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis), Iceland, 1844
Lot Closed
January 19, 02:17 PM GMT
Estimate
45,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Lady Cust's Great Auk egg
An Egg of the Extinct Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis), Iceland, 1844
with a bespoke slate dish stand and an associated glazed and ebonised wood display case
12cm. high
William Yarrell (1784 –1856);
Mary Anne Cust (1799 – 1882);
George Dawson Rowley (1822-1878);
Captain Vivian Hewitt (1888-1965).
Symington Grieve, The Great Auk, 1888;
P. and J., Tomkinson, Eggs of the Great Auk, 1966;
Errol Fuller, The Great Auk, 1999;
Kates Jacobs, ‘Bier Bones’, World of Interiors, December 2022, p. 103.