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• Auction House:
  Sotheby's Australia
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian Art
• Sale Date:
  14 Aug 2012 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  1
• Lot Description:
  The Sydney Bird Painter
  (active 1790s)
  Hook-Billed Shrike (Grey Butcher Bird) (Circa 1792)
  watercolour, pen and ink over pencil on paper
  47.5 x 30.5 cm
  inscribed 'The Natural Size' lower centre
• Provenance:
  Private Collection, Canada; Australian and European Paintings, Prints and Photographs, Christie's, Melbourne, 6 December 1994, lot 68, illustrated; Private Collection, Melbourne
• Notes:
  We gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance of Professor Michael Rosenthal in cataloguing this work.
• Estimate:
  A$50,000 - 70,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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