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Edward Lear, Set of Three Swans: Whistling Swan, Berwick’s Swan, Domestic Swan.

Creator: Edward Lear
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
Hand-coloured lithographed plates, heightened with gum arabic. Framed and glazed. Overall 62 x 45cm.

Edward Lear is one of the greatest ornithological artists of all time. Lear's contributions included the most eye-catching subjects in the book: eagles, owls, cranes, pelicans, geese, swans, and flamingos.

Lear's plates are from bird drawings that ‘are certainly among the most remarkable bird drawings ever made, [for] it is evident that Lear endowed them with some measure of his own whimsy and intelligence, his energetic curiosity, his self-conscious clumsiness and his unselfconscious charm’ (Hyman).

‘He introduced a sense of subtlety and freedom into her drawings where previously she had only mimicked the technique used in etching or engraving. There is no doubt that Edward Lear was the first person to understand the art of lithography and to use it to its fullest potential. It was a legacy that made the works of Gould into a success and took them into the forefront of nineteenth-century illustration’ (Tree).

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	England
Period:	19th Century
Materials:	lithograph
Condition:	Good.
Creation Date:	1837
Styles / Movements:	Realism, Other , Color
Dealer Reference #:	98801
Incollect Reference #:	315777

Dimensions

W.	24.41 in;	H.	17.72 in;	D.	0.2 in;
W.	62 cm;	H.	45 cm;	D.	0.5 cm;

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