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[Two parrorts].
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CA RBD MSG BW005-24
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2 paintings on 1 sheet : watercolour ; 52.5 x 36.0 cm
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(1812-1888)
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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.
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Golden parrot dated: July [5 or 6] [1830 or 1831] Knowsley.
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Vasa parrot dated: Knowsley 5 July 1830.
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Painted for: Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall. Knowsley : privately published, 1846.
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Illustration no. 24-25 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.