The Pigeon with the butterfly and birds nest: The gouache remains in good colour depth. The background is quite heavily stained which slightly recedes at the top edge and right hand side edge. The main body of the background has a slightly mottled look with lighter small patches. There is isolated and sporadic brown specs of presumably foxing. There is a black (painted?) vertical line running from the top of the pigeon's beak approximately 0.5cm in length and may not be contemporary with the other painting. Evidence of some light cockelling to the paper. Minor scuff to the bottom right hand corner. (has not been examined out of the frame) The white bird on a branch with flowers: There is an overall good depth of colour to the gouache with some loss of definition to the green of the leaves to the left of the blue coloured tulip, the stalk and the long curved green leaf forming a ''C'' shape between the two red chrysanthemums. The blue corn flowers above the left hand side of the afore mentioned leaf are losing some of the colour depth and definition. There is also some fine cracking to the paint of two or three of the cornflower's centres and minor light flaking to the denser parts of the burgundy coloured gouache forming the vegetation of the orange coloured tulip in the lower section. The background is uniformly heavily stained to a dark beige colour. The paper is cockelling. There is one worm hole to the left hand side edge. There is a small ''V'' shaped crease/tear to the upper left hand corner (less than 0.5cm on each side) and a small amount of thunder flies are visible to the top right hand corner (has not been examined out of the frame) The reverse of this example bears an inscription verso ''A pair of Dixon pictures (18th century) bought from A. Cook at Antique Dealers Fair in 1957 for £200 Feversham.'' The example with the red parrot: The colour depth of the gouache is generally strong and good. There is some very minor and fine crazing with very small lo

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