Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

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Desmarest's Cormorant

Artist Edward Lear (British, 1812 - 1888)

Date1832-1837

MediumLithograph, hand-colored

Dimensions16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineMuseum purchase, funds provided by Terry White

Object number2010.57.12

Collections

PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BEFORE 1850

DescriptionPhalacrocorax Desmarestii (Desmarest's Cormorant), a bird with an all-over black body, feet, and crest, and a long yellow hooked beak, standing on the edge of a cliff or rock overlooking mountains. Plate 411 from volume V of "Birds of Europe", London, 1832-1837.