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A giclée print on 200gsm matte fine art paper, using a twelve-colour process for accurate, fade-resistant colour. Supplied unframed, delivered flat or rolled.
Storlom - Archibald Thorburn
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£28.00 GBP
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En detaljerad ornitologisk studie av storlom och besläktade arter av den brittiske djurkonstnären Archibald Thorburn.
Archibald Thorburn är fortfarande en av de mest respekterade figurerna inom brittisk djurkonst. Hans tillvägagångssätt vid ornitologiska illustrationer kombinerar vetenskaplig precision med en skarp känsla för den naturliga miljön. Detta specifika verk, som visar storlommen tillsammans med andra besläktade arter, visar hans förmåga att fånga akvatiska fåglars specifika fjäderdräktsmönster och anatomiska detaljer. Thorburn arbetade främst med akvarell, ett medium som gjorde det möjligt för honom att återge fjädrarnas mjuka texturer och vattnets reflekterande kvalitet med stor klarhet. Hans kompositioner grupperade ofta flera exemplar tillsammans, vilket gav en omfattande visuell referens för betraktaren. Fåglarna avbildas i olika aktivitetsstadier, från simning till vila på strandlinjen, vilket ger betraktaren en känsla av deras beteende i det vilda. Hans verk beställdes ofta för stora naturhistoriska publikationer under slutet av 1800-talet och början av 1900-talet. Dessa illustrationer värderades för sin noggrannhet, då fotografin ännu inte hade ersatt behovet av skickliga konstnärer för att dokumentera arter i deras naturliga livsmiljöer. Thorburn tillbringade betydande tid med att observera fåglar i de skotska högländerna, vilket bidrog till autenticiteten i hans avbildningar. Den dämpade färgpaletten som används här återspeglar fåglarnas och deras omgivnings naturliga toner, och undviker onödiga utsmyckningar. Fokus ligger helt och hållet på ämnenas biologiska egenskaper, presenterade med en klarhet som är typisk för hans professionella produktion. Detta tryck ger en inblick i traditionen av brittisk naturhistorisk illustration, där konstnären fungerade som både en krönikör och en skarp observatör av naturen. Verket är ett tydligt exempel på den tekniska skicklighet som krävdes för att producera högkvalitativa planscher för dåtidens vetenskapliga volymer.
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Storlom - Archibald Thorburn
Ordinarie pris
Från £28.00 GBP
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Från £28.00 GBP
Ordinarie pris
Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Archibald Thorburn
Thorburn's father was Robert Thorburn, Queen Victoria's favourite miniature painter. The elder Thorburn was exacting: he tore up his son's weaker sketches. Archibald learned early that accuracy was not optional.
He began as a sportsman, attending shooting parties at Sandringham and sketching the birds he helped kill. Sometime before the turn of the century he wounded a hare and heard it scream. He hung up his gun permanently and spent the rest of his career painting the wildlife he had previously hunted. The shift from sportsman to conservationist is the central event of his life, though he rarely discussed it publicly.
He worked almost exclusively in watercolour, deeming oils too heavy and lifeless for the task of rendering a bird in its habitat. He enhanced his watercolours with tempera and Chinese white, achieving a luminosity that made the feathers glow. Each painting is a field study: the bird is anatomically correct, the vegetation is botanically identifiable, and the light belongs to a specific time of day in a specific season. His favourite haunt was the Forest of Gaick near Kingussie in the Scottish Highlands, where he first saw ptarmigan in 1883.
In his last years he refused electric lighting in his studio, preferring natural light and candles. He illustrated several editions of Swaysland's Familiar Wild Birds, produced Christmas cards that sold in enormous quantities, and became the most commercially successful wildlife painter in British history.
He taught Otto Murray Dixon and Philip Rickman, and when the young Donald Watson visited him in Dumfries and Galloway, Thorburn encouraged him to continue. The tradition of British bird painting runs through his studio.
He began as a sportsman, attending shooting parties at Sandringham and sketching the birds he helped kill. Sometime before the turn of the century he wounded a hare and heard it scream. He hung up his gun permanently and spent the rest of his career painting the wildlife he had previously hunted. The shift from sportsman to conservationist is the central event of his life, though he rarely discussed it publicly.
He worked almost exclusively in watercolour, deeming oils too heavy and lifeless for the task of rendering a bird in its habitat. He enhanced his watercolours with tempera and Chinese white, achieving a luminosity that made the feathers glow. Each painting is a field study: the bird is anatomically correct, the vegetation is botanically identifiable, and the light belongs to a specific time of day in a specific season. His favourite haunt was the Forest of Gaick near Kingussie in the Scottish Highlands, where he first saw ptarmigan in 1883.
In his last years he refused electric lighting in his studio, preferring natural light and candles. He illustrated several editions of Swaysland's Familiar Wild Birds, produced Christmas cards that sold in enormous quantities, and became the most commercially successful wildlife painter in British history.
He taught Otto Murray Dixon and Philip Rickman, and when the young Donald Watson visited him in Dumfries and Galloway, Thorburn encouraged him to continue. The tradition of British bird painting runs through his studio.
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- Arkivbeständigt matt konstpapper, FSC-certifierat
- Flera storlekar och inramningsalternativ tillgängliga
- Ramar i svart, naturträ, mörkt trä eller vitt
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- Förvara på en torr plats i rumstemperatur
- Hantera tryck med rena, torra händer
Material och storlek
Gicléeutskrift av museikvalitet på FSC-certifierat matt arkivpapper, med inramade alternativ och alternativ på canvas.
- Pappersstorlekar: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 och B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) till Large (60×90 cm)
- Ramar: svart, naturligt trä, mörkt trä eller vit
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Fine Art Framed
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The same fine art print in a solid wood frame with UV-protective acrylic glaze and rigid backing. Five frame colours. Arrives ready to hang.
Premium Box Frame
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A deeper solid wood frame: 33mm deep with a 20mm face and Perspex glaze. The print sits unmounted for a clean gallery presentation. Black, white or natural.
Canvas
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Hand-stretched canvas with neat gallery-wrapped edges, giving the artwork surface texture and depth. Arrives ready to hang.
Framed Canvas
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Stretched canvas set in a floating wood frame, our most substantial finish. Arrives ready to hang.
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Artistbiografi
Archibald Thorburn
Thorburn's father was Robert Thorburn, Queen Victoria's favourite miniature painter. The elder Thorburn was exacting: he tore up his son's weaker sketches. Archibald learned early that accuracy was not optional.
He began as a sportsman, attending shooting parties at Sandringham and sketching the birds he helped kill. Sometime before the turn of the century he wounded a hare and heard it scream. He hung up his gun permanently and spent the rest of his career painting the wildlife he had previously hunted. The shift from sportsman to conservationist is the central event of his life, though he rarely discussed it publicly.
He worked almost exclusively in watercolour, deeming oils too heavy and lifeless for the task of rendering a bird in its habitat. He enhanced his watercolours with tempera and Chinese white, achieving a luminosity that made the feathers glow. Each painting is a field study: the bird is anatomically correct, the vegetation is botanically identifiable, and the light belongs to a specific time of day in a specific season. His favourite haunt was the Forest of Gaick near Kingussie in the Scottish Highlands, where he first saw ptarmigan in 1883.
In his last years he refused electric lighting in his studio, preferring natural light and candles. He illustrated several editions of Swaysland's Familiar Wild Birds, produced Christmas cards that sold in enormous quantities, and became the most commercially successful wildlife painter in British history.
He taught Otto Murray Dixon and Philip Rickman, and when the young Donald Watson visited him in Dumfries and Galloway, Thorburn encouraged him to continue. The tradition of British bird painting runs through his studio.
He began as a sportsman, attending shooting parties at Sandringham and sketching the birds he helped kill. Sometime before the turn of the century he wounded a hare and heard it scream. He hung up his gun permanently and spent the rest of his career painting the wildlife he had previously hunted. The shift from sportsman to conservationist is the central event of his life, though he rarely discussed it publicly.
He worked almost exclusively in watercolour, deeming oils too heavy and lifeless for the task of rendering a bird in its habitat. He enhanced his watercolours with tempera and Chinese white, achieving a luminosity that made the feathers glow. Each painting is a field study: the bird is anatomically correct, the vegetation is botanically identifiable, and the light belongs to a specific time of day in a specific season. His favourite haunt was the Forest of Gaick near Kingussie in the Scottish Highlands, where he first saw ptarmigan in 1883.
In his last years he refused electric lighting in his studio, preferring natural light and candles. He illustrated several editions of Swaysland's Familiar Wild Birds, produced Christmas cards that sold in enormous quantities, and became the most commercially successful wildlife painter in British history.
He taught Otto Murray Dixon and Philip Rickman, and when the young Donald Watson visited him in Dumfries and Galloway, Thorburn encouraged him to continue. The tradition of British bird painting runs through his studio.
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