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WOLF, Joseph (1820-1899)
Merlin; Falco aesalon; Falco columbarius Linnaeus.
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour, white heightening and gum arabic, 524 x 353mm, framed and glazed.
Literature: John Gould, The Birds of Great Britain, I, plate 19.
Provenance: Frederick Du Cane Godman (lot 17 in his sale, Christie's, London, 4 October 1994).
Gould believed that the Merlin's habitat was 'the open moor and the fell: and the more wild and desolate the district, the greater is its charm for this bold little falcon'. He shows the Merlin's nest of a few crossed heather stalks laid on the bare ground. The male parent brings its prey of a small Serin Finch for the four white downy nestlings.
Merlin; Falco aesalon; Falco columbarius Linnaeus.
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour, white heightening and gum arabic, 524 x 353mm, framed and glazed.
Literature: John Gould, The Birds of Great Britain, I, plate 19.
Provenance: Frederick Du Cane Godman (lot 17 in his sale, Christie's, London, 4 October 1994).
Gould believed that the Merlin's habitat was 'the open moor and the fell: and the more wild and desolate the district, the greater is its charm for this bold little falcon'. He shows the Merlin's nest of a few crossed heather stalks laid on the bare ground. The male parent brings its prey of a small Serin Finch for the four white downy nestlings.
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