Portfolio of South African Owls - Claude Gibney Finch-Davies
Portfolio of South African Owls - Claude Gibney Finch-Davies
A biographical note, incorporating a key to the plates, is in English and Afrikaans.
Twelve owls are listed and described - 1 Giant Eagle Owl, 2 Cape Eagle-Owl, 3 Spotted Eagle-Owl, 4 Pel's Fishing Owl, 5 Pearl-spotted Owl, 6 Barred Owl, 7 Scops Owl, 8 White-faced Owl, 9 African Marsh Owl, 10 Wood Owl, 11 Barn Owl, 12 Grass Owl.
The original paintings reproduced (printed by Whitnall Simonsen) on 345 x 295 mm sheets of heavy matt art paper, date from 1913 to 1918.
Patterned portfolio folder is a very worn and dusty with a tear on the spine.... but prints are in very good+, clean condition inside.(Price drastically reduced on account of condition of Portfolio holder) Afrikaans/English. Transvaal Museum, Pretoria. No Date. 12 plates & biographical sketch.
