Free public lecture
Robert McCracken Peck, Curator of Art and Artifacts, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Edward Lear (1812–1888), best known for The Owl and the Pussycat and other nonsense poetry, was also an accomplished painter of birds, mammals, reptiles, and landscapes, and an adventurous world traveler. His paintings of parrots, macaws, toucans, owls, and other birds are among the finest ever published. Robert McCracken Peck will discuss the remarkable life and natural history paintings of this beloved children’s writer, who mysteriously abandoned his scientific work soon after achieving preeminence in the field.
Date:
Thursday, November 21, 2019, 6:00pm (GMT-5)
Location:
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
This event will be livestreamed on the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC) Facebook page and the HMSC website. A recording of this program will be available on the Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Videos page approximately three weeks after the lecture.