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| Image title: | Partridges. |
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| Source: | White, The Rev. Gilbert: “The Natural History of Selborne” (1879) |
| Place shown: | none |
| Keywords: | birds, greyscale |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested |
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“Partridges in vast plenty are bred in good seasons on the verge of this forest [the forest of Wolmer, mostly in the parish of Selborne], into which they love to make excursions; and in particular, in the dry summers of 1740 and 1741, and some years after, they swarmed to such a degree that parties of unreasonable sportsmen killed twenty and sometimes thirty brace in a day.” (pp 17, 18) A partridge was once a traditional bird to eat roasted at Christmas, or so one might conclude from the famous song, A partridge in a pear tree. I made a partridge wallpaper version of this engraving, too. |
| Dimensions: | 80 x 75mm (3.1 x 3.0 inches) |
| Filename: | 018-Partridges-q75-978x926.jpg |
| Blog image: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/1a/018-Partridges-q75-500x474.jpg |
| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/1a/pages/018-Partridges/ |
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| Scanner dpi: | 2400 |
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