Lot Essay
The watercolour is unusual in that the bird has been depicted ornamentally with its feathers around it and not as it would be in life.
Details
Circle of Elizabeth Gould
A Red-breasted Toucan
pencil and watercolour on grey paper
20½ x 15in. (52 x 38.2 cm.) and two lithographs after John Gould of Toucan including ; a Many-banded Aracari, and Chestnut-eared Aracari (3)
A Red-breasted Toucan
pencil and watercolour on grey paper
20½ x 15in. (52 x 38.2 cm.) and two lithographs after John Gould of Toucan including ; a Many-banded Aracari, and Chestnut-eared Aracari (3)