Skip to main contentDescriptionTwo male birds in a treetop bed of staghorn ferns. Written on lower border (hidden) "drawn from nature, actual size." also other information regarding paint colors, most unreadable, used to bring out the color of the lower birds tail and under neck of upper.
Paradise Riflebirds
Artist/Maker
Raymond Harris-Ching
United Kingdom, b. New Zealand, 1939
Mediumwatercolor and gouache on paperboard
Dimensionsimage: 25 1/2 × 20 1/2 in. (64.8 × 52.1 cm)
frame: 39 1/4 × 30 1/4 in. (99.7 × 76.8 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberJL2007.011
ClassificationsPainting
SignedSigned
InscribedLRC
On View
Not on viewRoy Martell Mason