Auguste Pelletier
working circa 1800-1847
LONG BILLED WOODCREEPER (NASICA LONGIROSTRIS) CIRCA 1801-1805
Estimate $1,500 – $2,500
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, SYDNEY
Auguste Pelletier
working circa 1800-1847
LONG BILLED WOODCREEPER (NASICA LONGIROSTRIS) CIRCA 1801-1805
watercolour heightened with white
numbered '24' bottom centre
50 X 36.4CM (SIGHT)
- Lot Sold $1,000 (Hammer Price)
- $1,220 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Marcel Jeanson (1885-1942), France, Bibliothéque Marcel Jeanson: Deuxiéme Partie:Ornithologie, Sotheby’s, Monaco, 16 June 1988, lot 271, illustrated
Private Collection, Sydney
Literature
Francois Le Vallant, Histoire Naturelle des Promerops, et des Guepiers (et des Couroucous et Touracos, Faisant Suite a Celle des Oiseaux de Paradis), Levault,
Paris, 1807, illustrated, pl. 24
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