28. Heinrich Bodmer
(1814-1891)

Partridges

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Bodmer, Partridges

Partridges

Pen and brown ink on brown paper, 1886, 180 x 263 mm., titled, dated and signed in ink. Bodmer was a Swiss artist, largely self-taught, who painted, engraved, drew and lithographed portraits, Swiss views and, particularly, natural history. This attractive, carefully-observed and meticulously-drawn sheet is inscribed "Perdreau, 14-8-86" and signed with initials.