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[Red-fronted parrot (Poicephalus gulielmi)]
Poicephalus gulielmi
1 painting : watercolour ; 52.3 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.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Identification of bird from: Forshaw, Joseph M. Parrots of the world. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Includes test patches of colour, and manuscript notes in pencil for choice of colours.
Illustration no. 33 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.