Edward Lear, Study of a King Vulture.
Signed lower left: E Lear del., dated lower right: Aril 1832, and inscribed lower center: Sarcoramphus papa (Linn.)/Drawn from life at the/Surrey Zoological Gardens
Watercolor over pencil heightened with bodycolor and gum arabic. 1832. Paper size: 10 x 12 3/4 in.

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

Arader Galleries.