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Title: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF EDWARD LEAR
(1812-1888)
By: Robert McCracken Peck, Sir David Attenborough (Foreword)
Format: Hardback

List price: £27.99


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ISBN 10: 1851498303
ISBN 13: 9781851498307
Publisher: ACC ART BOOKS
Pub. date: 17 October, 2016
Pages: 224
Description: Containing illustrations reproduced here for the first time, writer and illustrator Edward Lear's place is confirmed among the greatest natural history painters of all time. Foreword by Sir David Attenborough.
Synopsis: Before he became celebrated as the writer and illustrator of nonsense poetry, Edward Lear was a prolific painter of natural history subjects who earned near-universal praise for the accuracy, originality and elegant style of his animated depictions of birds and other wildlife. His best remembered scientific contribution is his magnificent monograph on parrots, the first English natural history book to focus on a single family of birds, which he began to publish when he was just 18. His depictions of "species hitherto unfigured" of that gaudy group of birds dazzled the world and established Lear as the artist of choice for many of the leading ornithological publishers. In that golden age of colour-plate books, an era still celebrated for the great volumes created by John James Audubon and John Gould, Lear created some of the most spectacular natural history illustrations ever published. He did so without the benefit of any formal training in art, and with neither independent funding nor institutional support.The original watercolours for his scientific paintings - many reproduced here for the first time - confirm Lear's place among the greatest natural history painters of all time.
Illustrations: 200 colour
Publication: UK
Imprint: ACC Art Books
Returns: Returnable
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