Ornithology. Gull, by Carl Friedrich 1814, watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, on brown wove paper, depicting a black and white seabird on a rock, some light spotting, signed, dated, and captioned in brown ink on verso, sheet size 24.4 x 25 cm (9.5 x 9.75 ins), mounted, framed and glazed, together with two other early to mid 19th century framed studies of birds, one a watercolour of a wheater with additional detail of the head, and the head and foot of a golden plover, toned, 24.4 x 16.4 cm (9.5 x 6.5 ins), the other comprising pen & ink studies of the head and beak of an ibis and the head, beak, foot, and nest of a reedling, lightly toned and marked, 23 x 15.7 cm (9 x 6 ins) (Qty: 3) First item possibly by the German ornithologist Carl Friedrich Bruch (1789-1857), whose particular interest was seabirds.
Ornithology. Gull, by Carl Friedrich 1814, watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, on brown wove paper, depicting a black and white seabird on a rock, some light spotting, signed, dated, and captioned in brown ink on verso, sheet size 24.4 x 25 cm (9.5 x 9.75 ins), mounted, framed and glazed, together with two other early to mid 19th century framed studies of birds, one a watercolour of a wheater with additional detail of the head, and the head and foot of a golden plover, toned, 24.4 x 16.4 cm (9.5 x 6.5 ins), the other comprising pen & ink studies of the head and beak of an ibis and the head, beak, foot, and nest of a reedling, lightly toned and marked, 23 x 15.7 cm (9 x 6 ins) (Qty: 3) First item possibly by the German ornithologist Carl Friedrich Bruch (1789-1857), whose particular interest was seabirds.
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