Taxidermy Red Grouse
Log #5724
Latin: Lagopus Lagopus
Description: Classic Victorian Red Grouse display by Rowland Ward of Picadilly. All glass case with with trademark ivory button and unusual, large ivory data plaque. Which reads "COCK GROUSE SHOT BY CATHERINE DEMETRIADI. ON THRESHFIELD MOOR. YORKSHIRE DEC.9.1925. AND PRESENTED BY HER TO HER FATHER."
Rowland Ward Ltd. of Piccadilly became and remained for many years the largest and most famous taxidermy firm in the world. Rowland Ward (1848-1912), formed his own publishing company, and between 1880 and 1911 published over 30 books. One of his books 'The Sportsmans British Handbook' contained over 300 illustrations of birds all of which had been mounted in the Rowland Ward studios specifically to be photographed for the book.