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C1917
Grass- Parrot. Allied Grass-Parrot
Artist:
Roland Green (1890 - 1972)
Distribution: NSW, VIC, SA & WA. Open country, including coastal and dunes, lightly timbered grasslands, cultivated paddocks,mallee, acacia scrublands and arid saltbush plains. First described by Gould P.Z.S. 1837. The Birds of Australia 1910-28 by Gregory Mathews is a monumental … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Grass- Parrot. Allied Grass-Parrot
Date:
C1917
Artist:
Roland Green (1890 - 1972)
Engraver:
Witherby & Co
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Lithograph with original hand colouring
Image Size:
240mm
x 335mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1917
Description:
Distribution: NSW, VIC, SA & WA. Open country, including coastal and dunes, lightly timbered grasslands, cultivated paddocks,mallee, acacia scrublands and arid saltbush plains.
First described by Gould P.Z.S. 1837.
The
Birds of Australia 1910-28 by Gregory Mathews is a
monumental work which took over 18 years to produce, comprising over 630 superb
original hand coloured lithographs,
drawn by J. Keulemans, R. Green and H. Gronvold. Rarer than John Gould’s
work on Australian birds, with only 225 sets ever produced, most of which are
in institutional collections and the last record of the complete individual
lithographs being offered for sale in Australia was over 20 years ago.
Biography:
Roland J. Green (1890-1972)
Green was an English bird artist, who produced numerous bird studies in watercolours and oils. Green remained a bachelor throughout his life, making his home in a disused drainage mill at Hickling in Norfolk. He set many of his bird paintings in the Broads, capturing some of the wild beauty of this region in his distinctive style. Roland Green was born in Kent, the son of a taxidermist, who trained him in the skinning, stuffing and setting up birds, thereby instilling an extensive knowledge of anatomy and plumage. He showed an early aptitude for drawing and painting birds. Educated in Rochester and at the Regent Street Polytechnic, he was a skilled bird and mammal painter, holding annual exhibitions of his paintings and etchings. The subjects of his etchings were snipe, Canada geese, mallard and kingfishers. He also gave lectures on bird watching and the drawing of birds, with an emphasis on birds in flight. He spent a great deal of time in the reedbeds, creating the mistaken impression of being unsociable, but his talks to pupils at various schools dispelled that notion.
