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ID of bird in painting..? (1 Viewer)
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JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
Tricky, nothing springs immediately to mind that matches closely enough to hazard a guess. Can't quite make out he artist's name but if it's clearer on the original it might be worth giving it a google, see if it's someone who specialises in the birds of a certain part of the world, could narrow the field.
Andy Adcock
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A Wren of some sort would be my guess
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Thank you. It's really hard to decipher the name of the artist from the signature ...
Aha! Could well be - thank you.
Andy Adcock
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JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
Could be a poorly represented female Sunbird of some sort, Purple maybe? Something like that?
Andy Adcock
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Alexjh1
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I would have said "Howling"?
birdmeister
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I guess Red-eyed Vireo is possible, but too yellow underneath and wrong bill shape for Red-eyed (or any vireo bill-wise). of course, it's a painting so the features I mentioned may have been disregarded in the making of the painting.:-O
foresttwitcher
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Does anyone recognise the flower / plant - that might narrow things down to a continent or habitat type.
Simon Wates
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I thought that too, but I don't know the flower or the leaves. I also noticed the date on the signature; is that 1782 or 1982?
The prominent rictal bristles may help too - I can't imagine an artist including them if they weren't obvious, unless the bird was "in the hand".
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Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
The artist's name looks to me like Honteng (or Honting); pic dated 1982.
The plant looks vaguely Hibsicus-like, which if true suggests something warm-temperate or subtropical.
The plant looks vaguely Hibsicus-like, which if true suggests something warm-temperate or subtropical.
