Male and female Hooded Merganser

Details

George Edward Lodge (1860-1954)
Male and female Hooded Merganser
signed 'G.E. Lodge' (lower right) and with inscription 'Ad., f. Ad., m./HOODED MERGANSER.' (on a label attached to the backboard)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour
8 1/8 x 11¼ in. (20.6 x 28.5 cm.)

Provenance

Field Marshall, the Viscount Alanbrooke, 1945 and by descent in the family until
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 March 1993, lot 184.

Literature

H.F. Witherby, The Handbook of British Birds, 1940, pl. 92 (d).

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

The present watercolour is one of the original drawings commissioned by Harry Forbes Witherby for The Handbook of British Birds, published 1940 in 5 volumes and reprinted six times over the next twelve years. Lodge produced 64 coloured and two black and white plates in total. Plates were also commissioned from Roland Green, Henrik Grönvold, Philip Rickman, John Cyril Harrison and Sir Peter Scott.

For a note on the artist see lot 78.

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