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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, ADELAIDE

HENRY CONSTANTINE RICHTER
1821-1902

Yellow-Spotted Honeyeater (Ptilotis Notata)

$30,000–50,000

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, ADELAIDE

HENRY CONSTANTINE RICHTER

1821-1902
Yellow-Spotted Honeyeater (Ptilotis Notata)

watercolour and pencil heightened with bodycolour and gum Arabic on paper
55 x 37 cm (sheet)

  • Lot Sold $30,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $36,818 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Henry Constantine Richter, London
Frederick Du Cane Godman, London
Mr and Mrs V.A. Gordon Tregear, England, by descent from the above
Australian and European Paintings, Drawings, Ceramics, Sculpture and Prints, Christie's Australia, Melbourne, 20 November 1995, lot 14, illustrated Private Collection
Private Collection, Adelaide

Literature

John Gould, The Birds of Australia, Supplement, Taylor and Francis for the author, London, (1840)-1848-1869, plate 41, p. 81

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