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The Farnley Hall Bird Book

JMW Turner

Art Funded
1985
Vendor
Sotheby's
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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