Footnotes

• PROVENANCE:
  Commissioned by Vincent V. Vickers Esq. c.1914
  Philip Rickman
  Thorburn Museum, Liskeard, Cornwall
  Sale, Sothebys London, Works by Archibald Thorburn from the Thorburn Museum, 31 March 1993, lot 76
  
  
  LITERATURE:
  Thorburn's Birds and Mammals, David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1986, illus opposite p. 72.
  
  'of all his pictures...the most daring was a gigantic one...of a peacock in full display in front of a red rhododendron in full bloom; a gorgeous sunset and woodland as the background and, in the bottom lefthand corner, a peacock butterfly. My memory may be at fault as regards to the details, but I remember the whole as a riot of colour; it was in no way dipleasing but was both magnificent and accurate'
  
  Hugh S. Gladstone, Scottish Nationalist, Archibald Thorburn obituary, January 1936

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Category: Fine Art / 19th Century Paintings

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