Original etching. 8x16.5 cm. (3¼x6½") on a 22x29 cm (8½x11½") sheet.

On the left are a peacock and peahen, standing; the foliage of creeping plants trails across the plates from the right. The distance is filled with the rays of the sun, just set. Signed by E.J. Detmold and initialed in pencil in the lower margin. The Detmold twins collaborated on a number of animal etchings at the close of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century. Maurice Detmold committed suicide in 1908, Edward would go on to success as an illustrator of numerous works including The Fables of Aesop, Maurice Maeterlinck's Life of the Bee and Fabre's Book of Insects.