Artist John Gould
Title Dissolving Group [Film Drawing]
Media graphite on paper
Size 22.25 x 35.5 in. / 56.5 x 90.2 cm.
Frame Size 32.5 x 45.5 x 1.25 in.
Estimate $700 - $900
Notes
signed lower right; titled on gallery label verso; framed
Reference
lot includes book John Gould: The Drawn Image, published by Roberts Gallery, Toronto, 1979
Provenance
Roberts Gallery, Toronto, label verso; from a Calgary estate
Biographical Information
John Gould ~ [1804-1881] British
see Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.2, pg.18, Westbridge Pub., 2000; important British ornithologist writing numerous books on a variety of birds including those from the Himalaya Mountains, Europe and Australia; he worked closely with Charles Darwin to publish Part 3 of Zoology of H.M.S. Beagle between 1938 and 1842