A collection of 10 original watercolours for Lord Lilford's Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Isles including: Aedon galactodes (Rufus Warbler); Sylcia nisoria (Barred Warbler) both illustrated; Motacilla alba (Grey-Backed Warbler); Turdus torquaatus (Ring Ouzel); Sylvia curruca (Lesser Whitethroat); Turdis varius (White's Thrush); Phylloscopus proregullus (Pallas's Willow-Warbler); Emberiza pusilla (Little Bunting); Acrocephalus luscinioides (Savi's Warbler); and Phylloscopus viridanus (Greenish Willow-Warbler)

The plates executed after the drawings included in this group were issued over a number of years: May 1886 to November 1897, some after Keulemans had ceased to work for Lord Lilford.
It was Keulemans who first began work on the plates for Lord Lilford's publication, but because of illness he abandoned the project in 1887. At this time Wolf was too elderly to continue the commission and so Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935) completed the drawings for the remaining plates. Maureen Lambourne in her book The Art of Bird Illustration, London, 1990, describes Lilford's publication as 'the last great series of bird prints of the century' (p. 176).
For a copy of Lord Lilford's Coloured Figures see following lot.