Archibald Thorburn - The Morning Call, Red Grouse

signed and dated l.l.: Archibald Thorburn 1911.
watercolour and bodycolour
53 by 73.5cm.; 21 by 29in.
ESTIMATE 50,000 - 70,000 GBP

'As the sun slowly emerges above the distant hills, casting its welcome glow upon the Scottish hillsides, a pack of red grouse awakens, the old cock bird acknowledging both the break of day and a neighbouring pack of birds,
incoming from adjoining heathery slopes.' (John Southern, Thorburn's Birds and Mammals, 1986, p.78)