Lot 1346
WILLIAM JOHN CAPARNE (1856-1940)
IRIS: BOTANICAL STUDIES
Two, one signed, one initialled, one inscribed THE MOOR/ June 1904/ own hybrid, the other inscribed AMETHYST/ MAY 27 1901/ 3ft 6 inches/ Palfrey/hybrids/ ZEPHYR, watercolour (the inscriptions in pencil)
26.5 x 18.5cm.; and 26.5 x 20cm. (2)
* In addition to his more familiar Channel Islands subjects, Caparne was initially a noted horticulturalist and he is thought to have developed more than 100 cultivars of bulbous irises.
