Lot Essay
These three drawings are studies for plates in Reichenbach's great ornithological work Die Vollständigste Naturgeschichte der Vögel des In- und Auslandes, published between 1845-1862 in Dresden.
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Two Cockatoos on a branch
Details
Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (Leipzig 1793-1879 Dresden)
Two Cockatoos on a branch
extensively inscribed by the artist (recto)
graphite, watercolour, bodycolour and gum Arabic
7 ¾ x 5 7/8 in. (18.7 x 14.9 cm.); together with two further drawings by the artist showing parrots, measuring 5 5/8 x 4 ¾ in. (14.2 x 12.2 cm.) and 4 7/8 x 3 7/8 in. (12.4 x 9.8 cm.)
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Two Cockatoos on a branch
extensively inscribed by the artist (recto)
graphite, watercolour, bodycolour and gum Arabic
7 ¾ x 5 7/8 in. (18.7 x 14.9 cm.); together with two further drawings by the artist showing parrots, measuring 5 5/8 x 4 ¾ in. (14.2 x 12.2 cm.) and 4 7/8 x 3 7/8 in. (12.4 x 9.8 cm.)
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Provenance
with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London (according to labels on the back of the frames).