Edward Lear, Study of a Paradise Shelduck.
Watercolor over pencil heightened with bodycolor and gum arabic. ca. 1830. Paper size: 8 3/4 x 10 3/4 in.

Prepared for T.C. Eyton’s A Monograph of the Anatidae or Duck Tribe, London, 1838.
Signed lower left: Edward Lear del./Casarca variegata (Gen)/juv. and in another hand: Casarka castanea, Eyton.

Provenance
The ornithologist T.H. Newman
By whom given to the Zoological Society of London
Sold through Wheldon and Wesley, 1992
Private Collection

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