Live Auction 20025The Collection of Mrs. Henry Ford II: Eaton Square and Turville Grange
Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (Leipzig 1793-1879 Dresden)
Lot 166

Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (Leipzig 1793-1879 Dresden)

Two Cockatoos on a branch

Closed15 April 2021

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GBP 3,250

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Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (Leipzig 1793-1879 Dresden)
Two Cockatoos on a branch
extensively inscribed by the artist (recto)
graphite, watercolour, bodycolour and gum Arabic
7 ¾ x 5 7/8 in. (18.7 x 14.9 cm.); together with two further drawings by the artist showing parrots, measuring 5 5/8 x 4 ¾ in. (14.2 x 12.2 cm.) and 4 7/8 x 3 7/8 in. (12.4 x 9.8 cm.)
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with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London (according to labels on the back of the frames).

Specialist note

These three drawings are studies for plates in Reichenbach's great ornithological work Die Vollständigste Naturgeschichte der Vögel des In- und Auslandes, published between 1845-1862 in Dresden.