Flower subject with insects, Butterfly

by Thomas Robins, the Younger

$8,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Signed

Thomas Robins, a native of Bath, was an enigmatic artist known for his watercolors. A small number of signed watercolors in the Broughton Collection at Cambridge University have been attributed to him, particularly in an album inscribed as 'Drawings of Flowers, Ehret, and Robins.' In 1967, the Bath and West Agricultural Society sold a collection of 'Pictures of Exotic Plants and Insects' by Thomas Robins the Younger, who was the son and pupil of the first Thomas Robins. Though there have been

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