Edwards, George
The White Headed Parrot. Pl. 166.
The White Headed Parrot. Pl. 166.
Stock Code 115162
London, For the author, at the College of Physicians in Warwick-Lane. 1747-1751
George Edwards FRS (3 April 1694 – 23 July 1773) was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology".
Edwards was born at West Ham, then in the county of Essex. In his early years, he travelled extensively through mainland Europe, studying natural history, and gained a reputation for his coloured drawings of animals, especially birds. He was appointed as beadle to the Royal College of Physicians in 1733. He was an English draughtsman and a skilled observer of birds and one of the most prominent ornithologists of his day.
Original hand-coloured copper engraved plate, some minor soiling, mainly to margins, paper size: 29.3cm by 23.5cm.
SITWELL, Sacheverell 'Fine Bird Books', 1990 pp.93; Nissen IVB 286-88; Zimmer pp. 192-98
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