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Belted Kingfisher.
by Anonymous [A Victorian Gentlewoman]
- Used
- Fine
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Langley, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Great Britain:: Original Watercolor,, [c.1880-1900].. Fine. Fine original watercolor on gilt-edged watercolor card, with new year greeting stamped in gilt on verso. (12 x 15.8 cm). Matted in Rag. Condition: Lightly toned with minor aged paper remains to verso corners from previous mount. All the more alluring by want of attribution, this watercolor of a Belted Kingfisher was painted not by a professional artist, field naturalist or explorer but by an amateur, or armchair, traveler/naturalist /painter; quite plausibly a young Victorian gentlewoman who would have learned the art of nature painting, as was the custom, and whose inspiration would have come from her estate's fine collection of grand natural history color plate volumes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The work is clearly stylized by a primitive eye, yet executed with an accomplished and refined hand; the technique is learned. The resulting composition is one of dramatic charm. Matted in Rag Board
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5686
- Title
- Belted Kingfisher.
- Author
- Anonymous [A Victorian Gentlewoman]
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Original Watercolor,
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain:
- Date Published
- [c.1880-1900].
- Keywords
- Victorian nature painting Belted Kingfisher British 19th Century bird, animal paintings, mammals, Victorian women painters Victorian natural History watercolours Anonymous Art, Print
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About the Seller
Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books
Biblio member since 2006
Langley, Washington
About Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books
Established in 1986, Lowry-James Rare Prints & Books features original engravings and lithographs from the 17th through the 19th Centuries including original work by John James Audubon, early Natural History Prints, Botany and Horticulture, Maps and Cartography.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- New
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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