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Ring-necked parrakeet (psittacus torquatus)
Ring-necked parakeet;Psittacus torquatus
1 painting : watercolour ; 52.5 x 36.8 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.
Also known as the rose-ringed parakeet.
Title in manuscript pencil at bottom of sheet.
Illustration no. 14 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.