image credit Yale Center for British Art | Licence: Public DomainYale Center for British Art
image credit Yale Center for British Art | Licence: Public DomainYale Center for British Art

A Bird

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Additional Information

From the Collection

Description

Inscribed in brown ink, upper right: "V. VI, Sup"; lower center: "Thamnophilus maculatus."; in graphite, lower center: "The tail must turn a | little more down."; on verso, upper right: "58"
Medium: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Image Credit

image credit Yale Center for British Art

From the Watercolour World

Location

South Africa

Country

South Africa

Medium

Line drawing

Tww Comment

The botanical artist James Sowerby amassed a collection of plant and animal specimens at his home in Mead Place, London.