Platycercus Stanley II, Stanley Parakeet

by Edward Lear

$1,600 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine example of the work of perhaps the greatest draughtsman of birds in European culture. Philip Hofer This image is from Lear's masterpiece: Illustrations of the Family Psittacidae, or Parrots, a work that combines the most exacting scientific naturalism with a masterly sense of design and intuitive sympathy for animal intelligence. Susan Hyman, Edward Lear's Birds , 1980 This beautiful lithograph is from Lear's first published work, limited to 175 copies, the

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