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C1832
Platycercus Palliceps. Paleheaded Parrakeet. In the possession of Mr. Leadbeater.
Artist:
The largest and rarest C19th printed image of the Pale Headed Rosella by Edward Lear. Signed in the plate at top right. By the age of fifteen Lear was making his living by bird drawings and produced his first illustrated … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Platycercus Palliceps. Paleheaded Parrakeet. In the possession of Mr. Leadbeater.
Date:
C1832
Artist:
Condition:
Light spotting on lower left corner of sheet edge, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Lithgraph with original hand colouring
Image Size:
320mm
x 405mm
Paper Size:
365mm
x 535mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1832
Description:
The largest and rarest C19th printed image of the Pale Headed Rosella by Edward Lear. Signed in the plate at top right. By the age of fifteen Lear was making his living by bird drawings and produced his first illustrated book in 1832, “Family of Psittacidae” . Issued in an edition of only 175 of which most are now housed in institutional collections. The series was enormously influential, with John Gould copying the large folio format and using hand coloured lithographs for all of his publications’
From Lear’s “Family of Psittacidae”
Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
Lear was was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet. By the age of 16 was already drawing "for bread and cheese" and soon developed into a serious "ornithological draughtsman" employed by the Zoological Society and then from 1832 to 1836 by the Earl of Derby, who kept a private menagerie at his estate, Knowsley Hall. He was the first major bird artist to draw birds from real live birds, instead of skins. Lear's first publication, published when he was 19 years old, was Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots in 1830. One of the greatest ornithological artists of his era, he taught Elizabeth Gould whilst also contributing to John Gould's works and was compared favourably to the naturalist John James Audubon. His eyesight deteriorated too much, to work with such precision on the fine drawings and etchings.
