Ellis Rowan
(1848 - 1922)
SMOOTH UPLAND SUMAC (RHÚS GLÀBRA)
watercolour and gouache on paper
55.0 x 36.0 cm (sight)
signed and inscribed with title lower right: Ellis Rowan / Rhus glabra
inscribed with title verso: Rhus glabra
Estimate:
$5,000 - $10,000
Sold:
$13,420 (inc. BP)
lot details
Ellis Rowan (1848 - 1922)
SMOOTH UPLAND SUMAC (RHÚS GLÀBRA)
watercolour and gouache on paper
55.0 x 36.0 cm (sight)
signed and inscribed with title lower right: Ellis Rowan / Rhus glabra
inscribed with title verso: Rhus glabra
inscribed with title verso: Rhus glabra
Provenance
M.H. de Young, San Francisco, USA
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA, a gift from the above
Bonhams & Goodman, Melbourne, 24 November 2009, lot 11
Company collection, Sydney
Literature
Lounsberry, A. and Rowan E., A Guide to the Trees, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1900, pl. CLVIII, p. 288 (illus.)