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 and for earlier works. see part 1 also.
This is part 2 of 21- part series on the works of Edward Lear:
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| 1819-23 Azara's Night Monkey published by Sir Richard Phillips and Co., London |
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| 1832 Weasel watercolour with pen in brown ink, with gouache and gum over graphite on paper 18.7 x 27.9 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
Various Birds:
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| 1831 Great Auk watercolour for plate 82 Prideaux John Selby's "Illustrations of British Ornithology" brown wash and ink over graphite, on paper 53.6 x 37.1 cm |
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| 1832-37 Eagle Owl. Bubo maximus hand-coloured lithograph 52 x 34.9 cm |
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| 1832-37 Snowy Owl hand-coloured lithograph 50.8 x 31.7 cm |
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| 1832-37 White Headed Eagle ( Haliaetus leucocephalus ) hand-coloured lithograph on wove paper 54 x 36 cm |
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| 1832c Varied Lorikeet ( Psitteuteles versicolor ) |
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| 1833 Common Heron hand-coloured lithograph |
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| 1846 A Black Swan pen and ink |
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| 1846 Two Mallards pen and ink |
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| A Hummingbird watercolour and gouache heightened with gum arabic and gold 34 x 28 cm |
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| Barn Owl hand-coloured lithograph |
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| Black Grouse hand-coloured lithograph 35.6 x 51.8 cm |
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| Capercailzie or Cock of the Wood hand-coloured lithograph 36 x 51.2 cm |
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| Chough lithograph with hand colouring 54.2 x 35 cm |
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| Common Buzzard lithograph with hand colouring 53.3 x 25.4 cm |
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| Common Gulls lithograph with hand colouring 34.8 x 54.2 cm |
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| Kestrel lithograph with hand colouring 54 x 35.1 cm |
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| Kite lithograph with hand colouring 53.9 x 35.5 cm |
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| Lanner Falcon lithograph with hand colouring 52.8 x 35.1 cm |
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| Lorikeet © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK |
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| Three Parrots on a Branch pen and brown ink with brown and blue washes, on grey paper 10.8 x 8.5 cm |
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| Parakeet in Flight watercolour over graphite on wove paper 17.8 x 23.4 cm The Morgan Library and Museum, New York |
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| Purple Heron lithograph with hand colouring 52.4 x 35.4 cm |
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| Solan Gannet lithograph with hand colouring 35.3 x 54.2 cm |
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| Spotted Cormorant lithograph with hand colouring 31.5 x 54.1 cm |
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| Spotted Eagle lithograph with hand colouring 54.2 x 35.3 cm |
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| Study of an Indigo Macaw, now known as Lear's Macaw watercolour over graphite on paper Houghton Library, Harvard College, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
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| The Samon-Crested Cockatoo ( Plyctolophus rosaceus ) Houghton Library, Harvard College, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
Tortoises:
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| Chelonia Imbricata |
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| Emyda Punctata |
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| Emys Geographica |
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| Emys Rugosa |
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| Emys Scabra |
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| Emys Spinosa |
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| Testuda Carbonaria |
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| Testuda Radiata |
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| Testudo Pardalis |
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| Testudo Tabulata |
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| Trionyx Labiatus |
Views in England:
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| 1834 Burpham graphite on cream paper 11.2 x 16.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1834 Fir tree in a Landscape ( drawing for a lithograph - see below ) graphite heightened with white on blue-grey paper 36.2 x 24.7 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum, London |
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| 1834 Fir tree in a Landscape lithograph 37.5 x 28 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum, London |
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| 1835 Head of a Chimpanzee graphite and watercolour Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA |
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| 1836 Crummock Water, Cumberland graphite heightened with white, on blue-grey paper 17.3 x 25 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum, London |
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| 1836 Head of Ullswater graphite heightened with white on blue-grey paper 17.5 x 24.7 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum, London |
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| 1836 Interior, Levens Hall graphite heightened with white, on grey paper 24.9 x 35.8 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum, London |
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| 1836 Kendal graphite on cream paper 11.4 x 16.9 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1836 Levens Hall, Westmorland graphite touched with white, on grey-blue paper 23.9 x 35.3 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum, London |
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| 1836 Near Ambleside graphite on white paper 26.5 x 37.4 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1836 Rydal Water graphite on blue paper 17.7 x 26 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1836 Scawfell Pikes graphite heightened with white, on blue-grey paper 17.4 x 25.1 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum, London |
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| 1836 View of Wastwater and the Screes from Wasdale Head lithograph 17.2 x 24.8 cm |
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| 1836 Westdale and Great Gable, Cumberland g raphite touched with white on blue paper 17.1 x 25.5 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum, London |
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