Details of exhibit
- Exhibition:
- 1911 Fifty-sixth Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
- Exhibit title:
- The Nightjar
- Exhibitor:
- William Farren
- Section:
- IV. Natural History Photography
- Exhibit No.:
- 553
- Description:
- A series of 12 prints illustrating the life history during the nesting period. The eggs are laid on the bare ground. The young, when first hatched, are covered with grey hairy down, which is succeeded in a few days by "quills," from which the shown in the photographs, and also the protection afforded to young at all ages, also to the adult by the wonderful assimilation of the plumage with the general environment.
- Exhibit type:
- Photograph
- Process:
- [Not Listed] ()
- Award:
- none
- Prices:
- Original Framed 25/-
