SMOOTH UPLAND SUMAC (RHÚS GLÀBRA)

Important Australian and International Fine Art
Melbourne
28 November 2018
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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 for $13,420 (inc. BP) in Auction 56 - 28 November 2018, Melbourne
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.)