deborah4
Well-known member
Some of you may be interested in this thread
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=165396
Apart from wanting to clear up some taxonomic questions about a couple of prints I was given yesterday, I've made a personal big discovery the past 24 hrs, one of my favorite childhood poets, Edward Lear, not only did lovely weird illustrations for his poems/limericks but was also a great ornithological artist on a par with Aubudon, Gould and Selby. I have a big fondness for Victorian natural history illustrators and was particularly pleased to find I now have a couple of 'Lears' to add to my collection! (Well prints anyway )
http://www.aradergalleries.com/detail.php?id=1714
http://www.ansp.org/museum/digital_collections/lear/gleanings_gallery_1.php
http://www.ansp.org/museum/digital_collections/lear/parrot_gallery_1.php
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=165396
Apart from wanting to clear up some taxonomic questions about a couple of prints I was given yesterday, I've made a personal big discovery the past 24 hrs, one of my favorite childhood poets, Edward Lear, not only did lovely weird illustrations for his poems/limericks but was also a great ornithological artist on a par with Aubudon, Gould and Selby. I have a big fondness for Victorian natural history illustrators and was particularly pleased to find I now have a couple of 'Lears' to add to my collection! (Well prints anyway )
http://www.aradergalleries.com/detail.php?id=1714
http://www.ansp.org/museum/digital_collections/lear/gleanings_gallery_1.php
http://www.ansp.org/museum/digital_collections/lear/parrot_gallery_1.php