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An Australian Eleven.
[c1880]. Separately published chromolithograph. Oblong format, mounted and framed (68cm by 40cm), with eleven Australian birds (nine parrots) posed on a branch. "Harry" Bright (1847-1896) was a successful English natural history watercolourist. His father (1824-1876) was of the same name and also a natural history painter. An Australian Eleven, and..... More
Pair of shot ducks.
Watercolour on paper, in a mount only 54cm by 66cm, signed "Neville Cayley" More
South African gamebirds and shrikes.
Pretoria: Author, 1956. Small folio, two watercolour title pages, 26 numbered interleaved leaves with typed text (verso only) on clear parchment paper, 21 signed and dated watercolours; the titlepages and watercolours all approximately 36cm by 25cm and individually mounted on a larger leaf of rag paper 41 cm by 34..... More
Buff-breasted Button Quail (Turnix olivii).
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
California Quail (Callipepla californica).
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
Chesnut-back Button Quail (Turnix castanotus)
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
King Quail (Synoicus chinensis)
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
Little Button Quail (Turnix velox).
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
New Zealand Quail (Coturnix novaezelandiae).
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus)
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
Red-backed Button Quail (Turnix maculosus).
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
Red-chested Button Quail (Turnix pyrrhothorax).
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
Stubble Quail (Coturnix pectoralis).
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21 lower right corner [and] vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
Black-breasted Button Quail (Turnix melanogaster).
watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 470mm by 365mm, Signed "F. Knight '21" lower right corner WITH vignette watercolour on Arches 640 gsm paper, 250mm by 350mm. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR AND VIGNETTE from Forshaw, Joseph M. Quail, Buttonquail and Plains-wanderer in Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2023. THE ARTIST: Frank..... More
The Grasswrens.
1995. Watercolour 450mm by 570mm, signed Marsack '95. Plate seven from Rowley et al., Fairy Wrens and Grass wrens, 1997. More
Upland Moa Megalapteryx didinus. Original artwork from A Gap in Nature.
1999. Watercolour and gouache on Arches paper, 665 x 880mm, framed, signed and dated by artist. Last Record: Subfossil, Surviving to about 1500. Distribution: Subalpine and Alpine Habitats, South Island, New Zealand. The first Maori arrived in Aotearoa, the archipelago now called New Zealand, around 1200 and in the next..... More
Black-shouldered Kite and House Mouse.
watercolour on paper, framed 70 by 54 cm, unsigned. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR BY PETER TRUSLER from Kloot and McCulloch, Birds of Australian Gardens, Rigby 1980. Peter Trusler (born 1954) completed a science degree in 1974 at Monash University, majoring in zoology, and has worked as a freelance artist since graduating. He..... More