George Morrison Reid Henry (1891-1983)
Two albums of field studies, many in Ceylon, the majority of birds including: I) peacock; gulls; owl; chucker, bittern snipe and II) parrots, pygmy cormorant, swallow, India roller, peacock crow, laughing thrush, owls
the majority signed, variously dated '1914-1971'
pencil, many with watercolour on paper laid on the pages of an album, bound in a bottle-green cloth binding with leather corners with 'I' and 'II' tooled in gilt, I approx. 155 sheets, II approx 98 sheets
18 7/8 x 12 in. (48 x 30.5 cm.); and smaller
the albums 20 ½ x 18 ½ in. (52.1 x 47 cm.), overall
George Morrison Reid Henry (1891-1983)
Two albums of field studies, many in Ceylon, the majority of birds including: I) peacock; gulls; owl; chucker, bittern snipe and II) parrots, pygmy cormorant, swallow, India roller, peacock crow, laughing thrush, owls
the majority signed, variously dated '1914-1971'
pencil, many with watercolour on paper laid on the pages of an album, bound in a bottle-green cloth binding with leather corners with 'I' and 'II' tooled in gilt, I approx. 155 sheets, II approx 98 sheets
18 7/8 x 12 in. (48 x 30.5 cm.); and smaller
the albums 20 ½ x 18 ½ in. (52.1 x 47 cm.), overall
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