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Auction archive: Lot number 325

WOLF, Joseph (1820-1899)

Auction 08.06.2005
8 Jun 2005
Estimate
£6,000 - £9,000
ca. US$10,911 - US$16,366
Price realised:
£9,600
ca. US$17,457
Auction archive: Lot number 325

WOLF, Joseph (1820-1899)

Auction 08.06.2005
8 Jun 2005
Estimate
£6,000 - £9,000
ca. US$10,911 - US$16,366
Price realised:
£9,600
ca. US$17,457
Beschreibung:

WOLF, Joseph (1820-1899) Saker Falcon; Falco sacer ; Falco cherrug Gray numbered '1.5.a.'; pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic, 543 x 368mm, framed and glazed. Literature : John Gould The Birds of Asia , I, plate 5. Provenance : Thomas L. Powys, 4th Baron Lilford (1833-1896) -- Frederick Du Cane Godman (lot 1 in his sale, Christie's, London, 15 December 1995). The female falcon is almost lifesize; a young bird perches in the distance. Wolf later made several drawings of birds of prey for Lord Lilford, which Thorburn adapted for the first illustrations in Lilford's Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands (1885-98).

Auction archive: Lot number 325
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jun 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

WOLF, Joseph (1820-1899) Saker Falcon; Falco sacer ; Falco cherrug Gray numbered '1.5.a.'; pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic, 543 x 368mm, framed and glazed. Literature : John Gould The Birds of Asia , I, plate 5. Provenance : Thomas L. Powys, 4th Baron Lilford (1833-1896) -- Frederick Du Cane Godman (lot 1 in his sale, Christie's, London, 15 December 1995). The female falcon is almost lifesize; a young bird perches in the distance. Wolf later made several drawings of birds of prey for Lord Lilford, which Thorburn adapted for the first illustrations in Lilford's Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands (1885-98).

Auction archive: Lot number 325
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jun 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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