Cuckoos displacing a Finch's Egg

William Tomkins (London c.1730 – London 1792). Oil painting on canvas (oval), Cuckoos displacing a Finch's Egg by William Tomkins (London c.1730 – London 1792), circa 1775. A horizontal oval painting of two birds on small trees hovering above a smaller bird next to its nest in a field. A spray of blossom with a nest; two cuckoos perched right, the cuckoo's egg in the small nest at the left, next to the smaller egg of the disconsolate pied wagtail perched on the nest; another of its eggs cast out onto the ground beneath. Stourhead, Wiltshire (Accredited Museum)