House Christie's to sell rare picture dodo

[SergeiSK]

At the July auction graphics and watercolors exhibited at Christie's earlier never publish pictures of Dodo bird or Dodo, extinct in the XVIII century. Figure, valued at 6000 pounds (about 10,000 dollars), made around 1650 by an unknown artist of the Dutch school, but probably is not original work, and fantasy on the theme of a famous figure in 1626 Dutchman Rolanta Saverio, said The Daily Telegraph.
European naturalists have not had time to make any significant number of sketches dronotov before these inhabitants of Mauritius and neighboring islands extinct. Most of the known image copy several textbook images, so every new, previously unknown picture to arouse interest from scientists. So, Julian Hume, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London called the unit of Christie's "interesting but strange", pointing to the unusual angle at which depicts a bird. Feathers, ostrich-like, Hume believes a mistake of the artist.
(Lenta.ru)