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Whooper swan (cygnus cygnus)
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Cygnus cygnus
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CA RBD MSG BW005-7
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[between 1835 and 1836?] (Creation)
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- Lear, Edward, 1812-1888
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1 painting : watercolour ; 37.0 x 58.0 cm
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(1812-1888)
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Edward Lear (12 or 13 May 1812 in Holloway, Middlesex, England-29 January 1888 in Sanremo, Liguria, Italy) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.
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Also described in the McGill library catalogue.
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Title in manuscript pencil at bottom of sheet.
General note
Illustration no. 7 in Lear, Edward, 1812-1888. Fifty original drawings of birds and a few indistinct pencil sketches. [S.l.: s.n.], 1835-36. folio ORH L47 cutter.