Live Auction 4935Birds - Watercolours
Lot 34

Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, R.A. (1901-1979)

Closed16 March 1993

Price Realised

GBP 483

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Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe, R.A. (1901-1979)

Study of a Damascene Pigeon from above

inscribed 'The so-called Damascene/for T. Forshaw' and stamped with the studio stamp on the reverse 'CHARLES TUNNICLIFFE R.A./STUDIO 1980 NO 397/20'; pencil and watercolour heightened with white 9 7/8 x 10¼in. (251 x 260mm.) (3)

Specialist note

The origin of this pigeon is though to have been from Damascus, Syria. Others say they came from Turkey. Avery old breed, formerly know as Mohomet or Mawmet, was referred to in 1676 but it was not until 1869 that an English Fancier exhibited them under their present name. The Damascene was seen as a flying breed in the Middle East some thirty years ago