Eclectus Roratus Polychloros
Edward Lear
ca. 1830–32
Medium
Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor) over graphite or chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 21 15/16 x 14 3/4 in. (55.7 x 37.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Carll Tucker, in memory of Carll Tucker, 1962
Accession Number
62.545.12
Tags
Parrots
About the Artist
Edward Lear
Edward Lear (1812–1888) was a British artist, illustrator, author, and poet whose creative output ranged from meticulous natural history illustration to landscape painting and the beloved comic verse of his limericks and nonsense poetry. Born in London as the twentieth of twenty-one children, Lear largely educated himself as a draughtsman and began his professional career illustrating parrots for ...