Verlag: Fischer Fine Art Ltd. London, 1978, 1978
Anbieter: Hermann Boehm, Nottingham, Vereinigtes Königreich
Kunst / Grafik / Poster
Hardcover. Zustand: Wie neu. BUTTERWORTH, Elizabeth & LOW, Rosemary 20 fine etchings with aquatint, contained in a black portfolio, including booklet with descriptive text by Low. First and only edition, this being one of 10 Artist's Proof copies. Each plate signed and titled in pencil by Butterworth. Ltd. Edn. of 60. 50 x 38.5 cm (20 x 15.3").
Verlag: London: Rodolphe d'Erlanger / The Basilisk Press, 1983, 1983
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe Signiert
First edition, first impression, limited issue, number 150 of 515 copies signed by the author and artist, of which 500 were sold. Butterworth's art is in the tradition of John Gould and Archibald Thorburn, while the author, Rosemary Low, is a leading experts on the conservation of parrots. Butterworth often paints from life in the field in South America and in her parrot menagerie. Her rendering of Macaws was described in 1993 by the art historian Ian Dunlop as "without rival this century" (Lederer, p. 206). She held her first exhibition at the Redfern in 1997, 2001, and 2009; in 2001 she showed Amazons, Macaws, and Cockatoos at the Natural History Museum, London. Roger J. Lederer, The Art of the Bird, 2019. Folio. Publisher's red silk, custom-made green fibre endpapers. Housed in the original black cloth solander case, paper spine label. With tipped in colour frontispiece and 27 similar plates. Minor bump to head of spine; box sunned, repair to head of spine. An excellent copy.