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Edward Lear (1812–1888)
Parakeet in Flight
Watercolor, over some pencil, on wove paper
7 x 9 1/8 inches (178 x 234 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Vincent Astor; 1977.23
See CORSAIR catalog record for this item »
By the time Lear was nineteen he was working on Illustrations of the Family of the Psittacidae, or Parrots, which was financed by subscribers.
A letter in the Library's collection relates how, in order to attract more subscribers, Lear limited the work by making 175 impressions from each drawing and destroying the stones.
While not a direct study for Lear's book, the markings of the bird appear to be identical with those of the undulated parakeet, plate 13 of this work.
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