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C1919
MARBLED FROGMOUTH
Artist:
Roland Green (1890 - 1972)
Distribution : QLD. Rainforests two races one small on east coast of Cape York Peninsula, the other on central east coast north to Gympie and south to Manning River. First described by Quoy & Gaimard Voy. de l’Astrol. Zool. 1830. … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
MARBLED FROGMOUTH
Date:
C1919
Artist:
Roland Green (1890 - 1972)
Engraver:
Witherby & Co
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Lithograph with original hand colouring.
Image Size:
335mm
x 240mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1919
Description:
Distribution : QLD. Rainforests two races one small on east coast of Cape York Peninsula, the other on central east coast north to Gympie and south to Manning River.
First described by Quoy & Gaimard Voy. de l’Astrol. Zool. 1830.
This image is from the last great bird series, The Birds of Australia by G. Matthews and is rarer than John Gould’s work on Australian birds, with only 225 sets done. It was the last series produced to use hand colouring rather than colour printed lithography for the illustrations. Original lithograph. Rare.
Biography:
Roland J. Green (1896-1972)
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.
