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Edward Lear, famed for his nonsense verse, was also an outstanding zoological artist. His best-known works are his portraits of live parrots at the London zoo, in Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots ... (London, 1830-32), and magnificent bird illustrations for some of John Gould's many folio ornithologies, including The Birds of Europe (London, 1832-37). But Lear also served as lithographer for other artists, as shown in this portrait of the semi-terrestrial Guiana Wood Turtle (Rhinoclemmys punctularia punctularia), which James de Carle Sowerby drew for John Edward Gray's Tortoises, Terrapins and Turtles Drawn from Life ... (London, 1872).
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