Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots

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Edward Lear’s album of parrots comprises the finest illustrations of the circle of relatives ever produced. Lear (1812–88) turned his hand to many things during his artistic and literary life—landscape painting, nonsense verse, and the illustration of birds and reptiles. His work as a natural history draftsman lasted little more than the primary decade of his career, until his eyesight was too weak for the detail of feathers and scales. The Psittacidae is Edward Lear’s most remarkable achievement: he conveyed with telling sympathy the carriage of a bird, the seize of the claws, the lean of the top, its grave, curious, or quizzical expression. The book, first issued in parts, was once drawn, lithographed, and published on a shoestring by Lear himself in a tiny edition. Statement by Robert McCracken Peck.

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