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Edouard TRAVIES (1809-circa 1868)
Oiseau mouche couronné - Frilled coquette - Lophorius magnifica Oiseau mouche hirondelle - Swallow tailed Hummingbird - Eupetomena macroura Oiseau mouche à gorge blanche - White throated Hummingbird - Leucochloris albicollis [1] Oiseau mouche à tête noire - Streamertail - Trochilus polytnus Rubis émeraude - Brazilian Ruby - Helidoxa rubricauda Jacobine - White necked Jacobin - Florisuga mellivora [2] both signed and dated "Edouard Traviès pt 1834" in the margin, black chalk, brush and grey and brown wash, watercolour, heightened with white and gum arabic, black chalk framing lines.
171 x 99 mm.; 167 x 102 mm.
Both drawings on separate mounts with gold borders, 285 x 167 mm.; 395 x 167 mm. (2)
Oiseau mouche couronné - Frilled coquette - Lophorius magnifica Oiseau mouche hirondelle - Swallow tailed Hummingbird - Eupetomena macroura Oiseau mouche à gorge blanche - White throated Hummingbird - Leucochloris albicollis [1] Oiseau mouche à tête noire - Streamertail - Trochilus polytnus Rubis émeraude - Brazilian Ruby - Helidoxa rubricauda Jacobine - White necked Jacobin - Florisuga mellivora [2] both signed and dated "Edouard Traviès p
171 x 99 mm.; 167 x 102 mm.
Both drawings on separate mounts with gold borders, 285 x 167 mm.; 395 x 167 mm. (2)