2-696-801 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Bonxie, Shetland', 1873, (c1902). After a painting in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London. Children hunting birds' eggs on the cliffs in northern Scotland: a boy uses a knife tied to a stick to fend off a parent bird whose nest is being looted by his companions. From The Nation's Pictures. A selection from the finest modern paintings in the public picture galleries of Great Britain, reproduced in colour. [Cassell and Company Ltd, London, c1902]