FRENCH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY An album of 92 original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawings of birds [France, before 1897], 270 x 225mm, various paper stocks, mounted on guards throughout, some identified in a late 19th-century French hand in pencil giving vernacular names and occasionally scientific binomials. Contemporary French morocco backed red cloth stamped and gilt in blind, g.e. (very light scuffing to extremities). Provenance : R. Reille (inscribed in pencil front end-paper in French, first Holy Communion gift from her father, Baron Victor Reille, dated 13 May [18]97). A fine album of watercolours of some of the most beautiful and unusual birds, both European, American, and exotic, including a bee-eater, thrush, waxwing, trogon, swallow, finch, vireon, fly-catcher, warblers, doves, tits, woodpeckers, tinamon, American turkey, bittern, plover, purple gallinule, snipe, duck, and teal. The watercolours appear to be after a number of published protoypes and principally in the manner of great French exponents of ornithological illustration, although the artist was also familiar with the work of foreign artists, including John Gould
FRENCH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY An album of 92 original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawings of birds [France, before 1897], 270 x 225mm, various paper stocks, mounted on guards throughout, some identified in a late 19th-century French hand in pencil giving vernacular names and occasionally scientific binomials. Contemporary French morocco backed red cloth stamped and gilt in blind, g.e. (very light scuffing to extremities). Provenance : R. Reille (inscribed in pencil front end-paper in French, first Holy Communion gift from her father, Baron Victor Reille, dated 13 May [18]97). A fine album of watercolours of some of the most beautiful and unusual birds, both European, American, and exotic, including a bee-eater, thrush, waxwing, trogon, swallow, finch, vireon, fly-catcher, warblers, doves, tits, woodpeckers, tinamon, American turkey, bittern, plover, purple gallinule, snipe, duck, and teal. The watercolours appear to be after a number of published protoypes and principally in the manner of great French exponents of ornithological illustration, although the artist was also familiar with the work of foreign artists, including John Gould
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