Scientific Illustration

Happy Birthday Edward Lear: 200 Years Of Nature And Nonsense

20th September 2012 to 6th January 2013

To celebrate the bicentenary of Edward Lear (1812–1888) the Ashmolean is holding an exhibition covering all aspects of his work.

The bicentenary of the birth of Edward Lear is being celebrated with events and exhibitions throughout the English-speaking world. As the home of the largest and most comprehensive collection of his work in the UK, the Ashmolean is mounting a retrospective exhibition covering all aspects of his career. From early natural history illustrations and extraordinary landscape sketches, to the nonsense drawings and verses for which Lear is so well known, the exhibition presents 100 works of art from the Ashmolean’s own Lear collection and important loans from the Bodleian Library and works from private collections, many of which will go on public display for the first time. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/sep/19/edward-lear-nonsense-illustrator

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/sep/20/edward-lear-200-years-in-pictures

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Google celebrates the 200th anniversary of Edward Lear’s birth.

Edward Lear was an amazing illustrator particularly of Parrots:

Source for more see: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=hou02192

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frankenho-deactivated20120119-d asked: Hey, so I really love scientific illustrations. The art style in them is fantastic, its not too realistic, not too cartoony. Its perfect. Anyway, I'm going to be getting a parrot tattoo with my sister (we both love pirate history and we're sisters), and I was wondering if you had any illustrations of scarlet macaws.

The Parrot illustrations by Edward Lear are amazing, here’s his scarlet Macaw although he calls it a red and yellow macaw:

There are some of his sketches for this illustration here, here and here.

wanderingfalcon:

from Bibliodyssey

Edward Lear Sketches of Parrots Relating to ‘Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots’ (1832), ca. 1830 (MS Typ 55.9). Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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Rainbow Lorikeet AKA Blue-Bellied Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus, synonym: Trichoglossus swainsonii).

Edward Lear, from Natural history of parrots, by Prideaux John Selby, Edinburgh, 1836.

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