Lot 201
Thorburn, Archibald
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 10 September 2014 at 12:00 BST
Description
Birds of prey. London: W.F. Embleton, 1919. Folio, one of 150 sets, 12 colour plates on card, each signed in pencil by Thorburn and numbered in pencil with Fine Art Trade Guild customs blind-stamps, original green-brown card folder with ownership[?] initials 'PMV' to upper flap, occasional light foxing and slight browning, mainly marginal, very slight rubbing to folder with small abrasion to spine, TEXT WITH CIRCULAR HOLE PUNCH STAMP TO TOP LEFT CORNERS
Footnote
Note: Falling between the genres of Victorian sporting artists and 20th century wildlife painters, Thorburn has been called, "...one of the most sought-after and highly priced bird artists..." - he painted his subjects outside in their natural surroundings, creating realistic images, "...indicative of the struggle for survival." Christine Jackson writes that the work is, "...a rare collectors' item,' as, "very few of these plates , not used in his other publications, have survived." [Christine Jackson, Dictionary of Bird Artists of the World, 1999, p.463]