Edward Lear

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One of the great ornithological artists of his era, the multi-talented Edward Lear (1804 – 1888) was a self-taught naturalist and painter who later became famous for authoring books of nonsense poems and limericks. Edward Lear’s exacting and masterly skill as an artist was employed by other major publishers of nineteenth-century English ornithologies and natural histories. Edward Lear’s work is distinguished by the fact that he was among the first bird artists to draw primarily from living examples, recording not only the precise details of the birds he painted, but also expressing his ornithological subjects’ unique character. The plates Edward Lear contributed to John Gould’s Birds of Europe are among the finest of that work. These rare, beautifully hand-colored plates are signed by Lear on the lithographic stones.

Birds of Europe - Oppenheimer Editions

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 10 Sea Eagle

$400.00

Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Print; circa 2013

Birds of Europe - Oppenheimer Editions

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 13 Short-Toed Eagle

$400.00

Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Print; circa 2013

Birds of Europe - Oppenheimer Editions

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 14 Common Buzzard

$400.00

Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Print; circa 2013

Birds of Europe - Oppenheimer Editions

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 15 Rough-Legged Buzzard

$400.00

Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Print; circa 2013

Birds of Europe - Oppenheimer Editions

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 2 Cinereous Vulture

$400.00

Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Print; circa 2013

Birds of Europe - Oppenheimer Editions

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 20 Lanner Falcon

$400.00

Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Print; circa 2013

Birds of Europe - Antique Originals

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 219 Chough

$1,400.00

Original hand-colored lithograph; circa 1832 – 1837

Birds of Europe - Oppenheimer Editions

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 219 Chough

$400.00

Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Print; circa 2013

Birds of Europe - Oppenheimer Editions

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 221 Carrion Crow

$400.00

Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Print; circa 2013

Birds of Europe - Oppenheimer Editions

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 224 Rook

$400.00

Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Print; circa 2013

Birds of Europe - Oppenheimer Editions

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 239 Wall Creeper

$400.00

Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Print; circa 2013

Birds of Europe - Oppenheimer Editions

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 243 Wood Pidgeon

$400.00

Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Print; circa 2013

$400.00

Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Print; circa 2013

Birds of Europe - Oppenheimer Editions

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 250 Black Grouse

$400.00

Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Print; circa 2013

Birds of Europe - Antique Originals

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 250 Black Grouse

$3,500.00

Original hand-colored lithograph; circa 1832 – 1837

Birds of Europe - Oppenheimer Editions

Lear Birds of Europe, Pl. 254 Rock Ptarmigan

$400.00

Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Print; circa 2013