Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae: or Parrots: the Greater Part of Them Species Hitherto Unfigured Containing Forty-Two Lithographic Plates, - Hardcover
by Edward Lear
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Cosimo ClassicsISBN-13:9781646794157ISBN-10:164679415XUPC:9781646794157Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life SciencesBook Topic:Biology, ZoologySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.25 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCVANQ4ZK7
Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae: or Parrots: the Greater Part of Them Species Hitherto Unfigured Containing Forty-Two Lithographic Plates,
"I wish I were an egg and was going to be hatched."
-Edward Lear
Illustrations of the Family of Psittaidae, or Parrots (1832) consists of 42 lithographs that were produced by Edward Lear at the London Zoo beginning when Lear was only 18 years old. By the age of 20 he was able to publish the entire collection. It is considered among Lear's greatest because he created it before he started to los...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cosimo ClassicsISBN-13:9781646794157ISBN-10:164679415XUPC:9781646794157Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Life SciencesBook Topic:Biology, ZoologySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.25 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCVANQ4ZK7
Lear, Edward: - EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888), was a British writer and artist, who created landscape paintings, nonsense verse, and the illustration of birds and reptiles. He was Queen Victoria's private drawing master and given a place in the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. As a naturalist painter, his work is often compared to the bird paintings of Gould and Audubon, who both worked with Lear....
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