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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  20 Nov 2012 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  27
• Lot Description:
  Moses Griffith
  1747-1819
  Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus Haematodus Moluccanus) 1772
  goucahe on vellum
  26.5 x 20cm
  signed 'Moses Griffiths pinxt 1772' lower left; inscribed 'from New Holland' verso
• Provenance:
  Thomas Pennant, Downing Hall, Whitford, Wales; By descent; Rudolph Edmund Aloysius Feilding, Viscount Feilding, Newnham Paddox, Rugby, England; The Valuable Library of Books, Manuscripts, Drawings, and Engravings; Sold by Order of the Executor of The Righ
• References:
  R.J. Willis, ?The Earliest Known Australian Bird Painting: A Rainbow Lorikeet, Thrichoglossus Haematodus Moluccanus (Gmelin) by Moses; Griffith, Painted in 1772?, Archives of Natural History, vol. 15 part 3, 1988, pp. 323-329, 327 (illustrated); R.J. Willis, ?Portrait of a Pet: An Australian First?, Australian Natural History, Vol. 23, No. 9, Winter 1991, pp. 680-681, p. 680 (illustrated); The Wettenhall Library: Natural History, Especially Ornithology, Voyages, Travels and Australiana from the
• Estimate:
  A$150,000 - 200,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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