low rosemary butterworth elizabeth (6 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Wie neu. BUTTERWORTH, Elizabeth & LOW, Rosemary 20 fine etchings with aquatint, contained in a black portfolio, including booklet with descriptive text by Low. First and only edition, this being one of 10 Artist's Proof copies. Each plate signed and titled in pencil by Butterworth. Ltd. Edn. of 60. 50 x 38.5 cm (20 x 15.3").

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Butterworth, Elizabeth. (illustratore). London: Rodolphe d'Erlanger/Basilisk Press Ltd., 1983. 178pp + [2]. Elephant folio. Half imitation brown morocco, green buckram, with gilt lettering. Binding variant for the standard limited edition of which 400 copies were printed. Gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Decorative lime green endpapers. Other trade editions are bound in red silken cloth. Limited edition: #179/515. Full-color plate frontispiece. Contains 27 full-color plates. 1 extra plate laid in. All plates by Elizabeth Butterworth. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ARTIST. Very fine. Apparently this is a proof copy according to some pencil notes on the front free endpaper. A few plates are accompanied by pencil identifications (in block letters) of some bird species, perhaps by someone who is very knowledgeable, possibly Sarah Lindsey or Lindsay, according to the pencil note. Other editions included a hand-coloured etching, or a watercolor sketch, or one with an original gouache painting, in a leather bound edition limited to 5 copies. This copy is a variant of some kind, and perhaps a proof version. Includes custom black clamshell box, velvet-lined. Printed label on spine. Printed on Invicta Parchment, custom-made for edition to match background of gouache paintings used for plates. Text and plates printed by offset lithography by CTD Printers Ltd. Book designed by Jock Kinneir. Rosemary Low is a conservationist, aviculturist, and expert on parrots. She has spent her life documenting and breeding the birds, both in the UK and the Canary Islands. Elizabeth Butterworth is a British artist known for her brilliant depictions of birds. It was through her bird paintings that she met Low, with whom she collaborated on this project. Her works are in the collections of some of the world's leading museums, including the Museum of Natural History in New York and the British Museum of Natural History in London. Jock Kinneir was a British typographer and graphic designer. Kinneir, along with his collaborator Margaret Calvert, designed the typefaces used by most road signage and rail systems in the UK. Amazon Parrots is set in Monotype Calvert, a typeface developed by Calvert herself. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first impression, limited issue, number 150 of 515 copies signed by the author and artist, of which 500 were sold. Butterworth's art is in the tradition of John Gould and Archibald Thorburn, while the author, Rosemary Low, is a leading experts on the conservation of parrots. Butterworth often paints from life in the field in South America and in her parrot menagerie. Her rendering of Macaws was described in 1993 by the art historian Ian Dunlop as "without rival this century" (Lederer, p. 206). She held her first exhibition at the Redfern in 1997, 2001, and 2009; in 2001 she showed Amazons, Macaws, and Cockatoos at the Natural History Museum, London. Roger J. Lederer, The Art of the Bird, 2019. Folio. Publisher's red silk, custom-made green fibre endpapers. Housed in the original black cloth solander case, paper spine label. With tipped in colour frontispiece and 27 similar plates. Minor bump to head of spine; box sunned, repair to head of spine. An excellent copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Low, Rosemary (Author) & Butterworth, Elizabeth (Illustrator). 1983. Amazon Parrots. Rodolphe d'Erlanger/The Basilisk Press, London. Limited Edition of 515 signed (by author and artist) and numbered copies, of which 500 were sold. This copy being numbered 47 is designated as one of the "Special copies, numbers 31-100 accompanied by hand coloured etching made specifically for the book by Elizabeth Butterworth." The original hand colored etching is signed and numbered, and included with book. Large folio (~14"x17") bound in original red silken cloth with specially made green fibre endpapers and in original black cloth solander/portfolio box. Book includes 28 fine tipped-in colored plates (including the frontis). Book, solander box and hand colored etching are in excellent condition! See photos for additional information on condition. Additional photos on request. Extra shipping will be required for this oversized book. Signed by Author(s).

20 fine etchings with aquatint loose in black cloth portfolio as issued (20 x 15 2/8 inches), accompanied by Low' text: 4to., original brown printed paper wrappers. First edition, limited issue, number 36 of 50 copies in portfolio of a total edition of 60. AS NEW. One of Low and Butterworth's earliest collaborations. Low, a renowned aviculturist, conservationist and expert on Parrots, has written the informative text accompanied by Butterworth's magnificent illustrations.

LOW, Rosemary - BUTTERWORTH, Elizabeth. Amazon Parrots. London: Rodolphe d'Erlanger/The Basilisk Press, 1983. Folio (17 x 13 6/8 inches). Frontispiece and 27 EXCEPTIONALLY FINE color plates, tipped-in, after paintings by Butterworth, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with an original hand-coloured etching by Butterworth, matted and loosely inserted. Original red silk over boards; preserved in a black cloth clamshell box with printed paper label on the spine (box a bit dusty). AS NEW. LIMITED EDITION, number 31 of 100 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator, accompanied by an original hand-coloured etching by Butterworth, of a total edition of 515. Rosemary Low is one of the world's premier experts on the care and conservation of parrots. Elizabeth Butterworth "is not the first British artist to succeed in capturing on paper the brilliant plumage of Macaws, but with Edward Lear she must be considered one of the best. Certainly she is without rival this century. Her success stems partly from intense powers of observation and party from an encyclopaedic knowledge of her subject. She has bred Macaws, looked after them, fed them and listened to their noisy antics from the first call of the morning to the last shriek at night. She has sketched them in the privacy of her back garden and in their natural state in the rain forests of South America. She has examined the skins of dead birds in natural history museums in London and New York and she could tell you the number of feathers in a tail and the size of a beak to the nearest millimetre. "It is this attention to detail combined with powers of observation that lifts her prints, watercolours and drawings from plain description into the realms of high art. Although she belongs to a distinguished ornithological tradition in which British artists like John Gould and Archibald Thorburn have excelled, she seems closer to a watercolourist like Edward Lear who can be appreciated as an artist on his own level and whose work appeals to collectors who do not know a Macaw from a Toucan. Her realism has surreal or super-real quality, and it is this aspect of her work which caught the eye of critics and curators on both sides of the Atlantic (and in Australia) and which has led to her work being exhibited alongside that by other contemporary artists in prestigious shows in New York, including the survey of contemporary art held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984" (Elizabeth Butterworth online).