The Farnley Hall Bird Book

JMW Turner (1775 - 1851)

Leeds Art Gallery

1815 - 1816

17 mounts with 20 bird drawings for the book on ornithology by his friend Walter Fawkes of Farnley Hall, near Otley in Yorkshire, where Turner was a frequent visitor. Originally part of an identification kit with feathers, the drawings were remounted separately in an album in 1850.

• Medium: watercolour
• Grant Paid: £27000 ( Total: £223000; Export stopped)
• ArtFunded in: 1985
• Vendor: Sotheby's

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