Indian School, circa 1875

A Collection of Watercolours of Birds including: Albino Turkey, Bohemian Waxwing, Toco Toucan, Plum-headed Parakeet, Velvet Scoter, Wallcreeper

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Indian School, circa 1875
A Collection of Watercolours of Birds including: Albino Turkey, Bohemian Waxwing, Toco Toucan, Plum-headed Parakeet, Velvet Scoter, Wallcreeper
pen and ink and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, the majority heightened with gum arabic, unframed
17.3/8 x 11 in. (44.2 x 27.9 cm.) (10)

拍品专文

This lot comprises illustrations by an Indian artist, after a number of French artists including Jacques Barraband, Coenraad-Jacob Temminck, Nicolas Robert and Jean-Baptiste Audebert.
These artists worked on some of the most important publications on ornithology in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
The bird illustrated above is known as the 'Parkinson'.