The Farnley Hall Bird Book
Artist: JMW Turner (1775 - 1851)
Location: Leeds Art Gallery
Date: 1815 - 1816
Materials: watercolour
Grant:
Amount Paid: £27,000 (Total: £223,000)
Vendor: Sotheby's
Review number: 3124 (1985)
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Description:
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.
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