The osprey, or fishing eagle taken in Lord Melbourne's Park at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire in 1786 / [graphic]Jones, John, 1745?-1797, printmaker, publisher[26 June 1790]eng"Statue of the bird standing to left on a square base, resting on a ledge, oval design; after a sculpture by Anne Seymour Damer, from a series of engravings after her work."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Text below title: One of the wings was almost cut off in seizing it. Mrs. Damer was present, and caught the idea in that moment of its rage.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Drawn and engraved after the terra-cotta model kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill.Mounted on page 200 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.