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Archibald Thorburn (British, 1860-1935) Brambling (together with Black Redstart and Black Headed Bunting, both en grissaille by the same hand and each 10 x 12cm (3 15/16 x 4 3/4in). Also accompanied by W. Swaysland's Familiar Wild Birds in four volumes, each with forty colour plate illustrations by Thorburn, Cassell & Company, Limited, London 1883. (7)) image 1
Archibald Thorburn (British, 1860-1935) Brambling (together with Black Redstart and Black Headed Bunting, both en grissaille by the same hand and each 10 x 12cm (3 15/16 x 4 3/4in). Also accompanied by W. Swaysland's Familiar Wild Birds in four volumes, each with forty colour plate illustrations by Thorburn, Cassell & Company, Limited, London 1883. (7)) image 2
Archibald Thorburn (British, 1860-1935) Brambling (together with Black Redstart and Black Headed Bunting, both en grissaille by the same hand and each 10 x 12cm (3 15/16 x 4 3/4in). Also accompanied by W. Swaysland's Familiar Wild Birds in four volumes, each with forty colour plate illustrations by Thorburn, Cassell & Company, Limited, London 1883. (7)) image 3
Archibald Thorburn (British, 1860-1935) Brambling (together with Black Redstart and Black Headed Bunting, both en grissaille by the same hand and each 10 x 12cm (3 15/16 x 4 3/4in). Also accompanied by W. Swaysland's Familiar Wild Birds in four volumes, each with forty colour plate illustrations by Thorburn, Cassell & Company, Limited, London 1883. (7)) image 4
Archibald Thorburn (British, 1860-1935) Brambling (together with Black Redstart and Black Headed Bunting, both en grissaille by the same hand and each 10 x 12cm (3 15/16 x 4 3/4in). Also accompanied by W. Swaysland's Familiar Wild Birds in four volumes, each with forty colour plate illustrations by Thorburn, Cassell & Company, Limited, London 1883. (7)) image 5
Archibald Thorburn (British, 1860-1935) Brambling (together with Black Redstart and Black Headed Bunting, both en grissaille by the same hand and each 10 x 12cm (3 15/16 x 4 3/4in). Also accompanied by W. Swaysland's Familiar Wild Birds in four volumes, each with forty colour plate illustrations by Thorburn, Cassell & Company, Limited, London 1883. (7)) image 6
Archibald Thorburn (British, 1860-1935) Brambling (together with Black Redstart and Black Headed Bunting, both en grissaille by the same hand and each 10 x 12cm (3 15/16 x 4 3/4in). Also accompanied by W. Swaysland's Familiar Wild Birds in four volumes, each with forty colour plate illustrations by Thorburn, Cassell & Company, Limited, London 1883. (7)) image 7
Archibald Thorburn (British, 1860-1935) Brambling (together with Black Redstart and Black Headed Bunting, both en grissaille by the same hand and each 10 x 12cm (3 15/16 x 4 3/4in). Also accompanied by W. Swaysland's Familiar Wild Birds in four volumes, each with forty colour plate illustrations by Thorburn, Cassell & Company, Limited, London 1883. (7)) image 8
Archibald Thorburn (British, 1860-1935) Brambling (together with Black Redstart and Black Headed Bunting, both en grissaille by the same hand and each 10 x 12cm (3 15/16 x 4 3/4in). Also accompanied by W. Swaysland's Familiar Wild Birds in four volumes, each with forty colour plate illustrations by Thorburn, Cassell & Company, Limited, London 1883. (7)) image 9
Lot 10

Archibald Thorburn
(British, 1860-1935)
Brambling

20 March 2024, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £6,144 inc. premium

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Archibald Thorburn (British, 1860-1935)

Brambling
signed 'A Thorburn' (lower right)
watercolour heightened with white
14.5 x 11cm (5 11/16 x 4 5/16in).

together with Black Redstart and Black Headed Bunting, both en grissaille by the same hand and each 10 x 12cm (3 15/16 x 4 3/4in). Also accompanied by W. Swaysland's Familiar Wild Birds in four volumes, each with forty colour plate illustrations by Thorburn, Cassell & Company, Limited, London 1883. (7)

Footnotes

Provenance
With The McDonald Booth Gallery, London.
Private collection, UK.

Literature
W. Swaysland, Familiar Wild Birds, London, 1883, vol. 4. opp. p. 45 (Brambling).

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