Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) 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, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; as an illustrator of Alfred Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes, and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.
For a full biography see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 - 19 also.
This is part 20 of 21- part series on the works of Edward Lear.
1880c Nonsense Alphabet:
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "A" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "C" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "D" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "D" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "I" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "J" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "K" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "L" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "N" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "O" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "P" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "R" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "T" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "U" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "V" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "X" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "Y" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1880c Nonsense Alphabet "Z" pen and indian ink 4.5 x 5.5 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1878-79c The Forest of Bavella, Corsica oil on canvas 146 x 240 cm |
1879 Plain of Argos from Mycenae watercolour 29 x 52.5 cm |
1884 Argos from Mycene oil on canvas 80 x 163 cm Trinity College, Cambridge, UK |
1879c The Plains of Bethany oil on canvas 24.1 x 47.6 cm |
1881 Mahabalipooram oil on canvas 22.9 x 45.7 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
1882 A View of Adam's Peak, Ceylon oil on canvas 24.7 x 47.2 cm Government Art Collection, UK |
1884 Feluccas on the NIle near Abu-Simbel watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of body-colour 8.5 x 17 cm |
1884 View of Deir Kadige, on the Nile, Egypt pencil and watercolour 9.5 x 18.5 cm |
1884-85 Avisavella, Ceylon grey wash on wove paper, laid down on card 9.5 x 14.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1884-85 Figures Setting Out in Canoes from a Palm Grove ( Wady Feiran ) grey and black wash on card 9.6 x 14.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1884-85 Mahatta grey wash on wove paper 9.6 x 14.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1884-85 River Winding through a Rock Formation ( Philae, Egypt ) grey wash on card 9.7 x 14.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1884-85 Tanjore, India grey and black wash over traces of graphite on card 9.7 x 15 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1884-85 Thebes black and grey wash over traces of graphite on card 9.7 x 14.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1884-85 View across a Bay ( Monaco ) grey wash and black wash on card 9.8 xx 14.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
n.d. A View of Mount Athos and the Pantokrator Monasery, Greece oil on canvas 18 x 28 cm |
n.d. A View of the Roman Campagna, a Villa and Aqueduct in the Distance oil on canvas 19 x 39.7 cm |
n.d. An Album of Sketches brown ink 10.4 x 16.5 cm |
n.d. An Album of Sketches brown ink 10.4 x 16.5 cm |
n.d. An Album of Sketches brown ink 10.4 x 16.5 cm |
n.d. An Album of Sketches brown ink 10.4 x 16.5 cm |
n.d. An Album of Sketches brown ink 10.4 x 16.5 cm |
n.d. An Album of Sketches brown ink 10.4 x 16.5 cm |
n.d. An Album of Sketches brown ink 10.4 x 16.5 cm |
n.d. An Album of Sketches brown ink 10.4 x 16.5 cm |
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