• Sporting & Wildlife Art Includ auction at Christies

    Sale 5626

    Sporting & Wildlife Art Including an Important Private Collection of Works by Archibald Thorburn and Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe

    London, South Kensington

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    3 November 2010

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    • Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935)
    Lot 19

    Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935)

    Spotted eagle

    Price realised

    GBP 5,000

    Estimate

    GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000

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    Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935)
    Spotted eagle
    signed 'A. Thorburn' (lower left)
    pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
    7 x 9½ in. (17.8 x 24.2 cm.)

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Lord Lilford, op. cit, vol. I, pl. 5.


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