拍品 103
103
Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935)
Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935)

Goldfinches among apple blossom

细节
Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935)
Goldfinches among apple blossom
signed and dated 'Archibald Thorburn/1906' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic, heightened with bodycolour
22.3/8 x 15 in. (56.8 x 38.1 cm.)
来源
with A. Baird Carter, London.

拍品专文

Thorburn is best known for his depictions of gamebirds, but his love of garden birds led him to publish British Birds, in 1915 and a number of his portraits of small birds were used for Christmas cards for the R.S.P.B. between 1899 and 1935.