Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 331

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
KEULEMANS, JOHN GERRARD. Ornithological Watercolors. 9 monogrammed watercolor drawings of birds and one hand-colored lithograph. 8vo, 9 1/2x6 1/2 inches, handsomely bound in full blue morocco gilt; overall fine. England, late 19th century

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The finely painted studies include an imperial eagle, tawny owl, cuckoo, pigeons and partridges, an elegant river stilt, and a green winged teal. Keulemans was a major contributor to several nineteenth-century illustrated plate books on birds.