Edward Lear: Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots

London, 1832

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ISBN
1-59110-008-9

Bestellnummer bei digento :: digento order number
101359

Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information
Edward Lear's album of parrots contains the finest illustrations of the family ever produced: it is also a stylistic monument in the history of the depiction of birds. Lear turned his hand to many things in the course of his long life - landscape painting, nonsense verse, and the illustration of birds and reptiles. The nonsense verse is Lear's most widely known achievement; but the limericks and their companion sketches are above all the inventions of a landscape painter who still preserved a hand attuned to the forms of reptiles and birds.

Lear's work as a natural history draftsman lasted little more than the decade of the 1830s, until his eyesight became too weak for the detail of feathers and scales. The Psittacidae is his finest achievement. Lear conveyed with telling sympathy the carriage of a bird, the grasp of the claws, the tilt of the head, its grave, curious, or quizzical expression (noteworthy beaks later reappear as remarkable noses on the limerick people, who are as distinctive as his parrots for their idiosyncratic posture and curious poses). Lear was exceptionally sensitive to the structure and function of features such as the parrot's beak and the turtle's jaws (the latter is evident in his lithographs of turtles and tortoises in Thomas Bell's "A Monograph of the Testudinata", also available in an Octavo Edition).

Lear's "Psittacidae" was drawn, lithographed, hand-colored, and published on a shoestring by the artist himself in a tiny edition. It has always been a rare and costly book. Now this Octavo Edition reproduces this masterpiece of ornithological illustration in stunning detail.

Features:
- Digital images of every page, cover to cover, in full color, presented as uncropped spreads, magnified to 200 %
- PDF file on CD-ROM
- Commentary by Robert McCracken Peck, naturalist, historian, writer, and Fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
- Binding description, book contents, and provenance
- Linked bookmarks for all text and illustrations

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