McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
Bonelli's eagle (hieraetus fasciatus fasciatus)
Hieraetus fasciatus fasciatus
1 painting : watercolour ; 52.0 x 36 cm
Edward Lear (12 or 13 May 1812 in Holloway, Middlesex, England-29 January 1888 in Sanremo, Liguria, Italy) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.
Watercolour, pen and pencil sketches, and notes.
With painted label "Falco bonelli Nov. 6 1835" hanging from beak.
Title in manuscript pencil at bottom of sheet.
Illustration no. 17 in Lear, Edward, 1812-1888. Fifty original drawings of birds and a few indistinct pencil sketches. [S.l.: s.n.], 1835-36. folio ORH L47 cutter.