1884 Self-portrait with his cat "Foss" |
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 - 9 also.
This is part 10 of 21- part series on the works of Edward Lear.
1852 View of Reggio and the Straits of Messina ( Calabria, Italy ) oil on canvas 51.4 x 82.2 cm Tate, London |
1852 Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria:
Title page |
Plate 1 Reggio hand-coloured lithograph |
Plate 3 Palizzi hand-coloured lithograph |
Plate 3 Palizzi lithograph |
Plate 8 Stilo hand-coloured lithograph |
Plate 8 Stilo lithograph |
Plate 20 San Michele di Monte Voltore lithograph 24.2 x 15 cm |
1852 The Mountains of Thermopylae:
1852 The Mountains of Thermopylae oil on canvas 68.4 x 135 cm Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives, UK |
1872 Thermopylae oil on canvas 33.6 x 53.8 cm Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK |
1853-54 Egypt:
1853 Dhows on the Nile at Sunset watercolour and pen and ink 9.5 x 23 cm |
1854 Aswan: First Cataract watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 33 x 51 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1854 Esneh on the Nile, near Luxor, Egypt watercolour with pencil, pen and ink on paper 10.3 x 15.5 cm |
1854 Girzeh, Egypt pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with body-colour on paper 29.2 x 48 cm |
1854 Kom Ombo watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 31.5 x 50.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1854 Luxor pencil, watercolour and body-colour 24.8 x 45.8 cm |
1854 Minyeh, Egypt pencil, pen and watercolour on paper 25.4 x 42.9 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1854 Nayadeh, Egypt pencil and watercolour heightened with body-colour |
1854 Opposite Metaghara: Sunset watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 14.7 x 23.2 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1854 View of Edfu, Egypt pen and brown ink and watercolour over traces of pencil 6.8 x 15.2 cm |
1854-67c Philae oil on paper laid down on canvas 34 x 54 cm |
1854c British Abadeh on the Nile oil on canvas 24 x 46.5 cm |
1855 Philae on the Nile oil on canvas 34.9 x 54.3 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York |
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1854 View of Lake Zurich graphite and brown ink or watercolour on cream wove paper 34.9 x 50.2 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
1854c The Bingemma Valley, Malta watercolour heightened with body-colour 10.2 x 20.2 cm |
1856 The Rocks at Kasr es Saad oil on canvas 48.3 x 75.6 cm de Young - Legion of Honour Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
1857 Nemertska from Kouzza, Albania ink and watercolour 32.4 x 52.1 cm |
1857 Porto Tre Scoglie, Albania oil on canvas 33 x 52.8 cm |
1858 View of the Ducal Palace, Massa Northern Italy watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of body-colour and gum arabic 16 x 25.5 cm |
1860 Nuneham ( Oxfordshire, England ) oil on canvas 52 x 77.5 cm The Berger Collection, Denver Art Museum, CO |
1860 River Scene watercolour 23 x 45.7 cm approx © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1857c Nonsense Alphabet "A" pen and ink |
1857c Nonsense Alphabet "C" pen and ink |
1857c Nonsense Alphabet "X" pen and ink |
1855-58 Corfu and Greece:
( 1854-55 ) The Temple of Apollo at Bassae oil on canvas 146.4 x 229.5 cm The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK |
1855 Potamos watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 30.5 x 20.2 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1855-63c Corfu oil on paper 24.7 x 34.8 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1856 Choropiskeros, Corfu watercolour, with pen and brown ink, with coloured chalks 47.8 x 34.9 cm The British Museum, London |
1856 Choropiskopos, Corfu watercolour on paper 12.1 x 19 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
1856 Corfu oil on canvas 26.5 x 49.5 cm |
1856 Karyes, Mount Athos graphite, pen and brown ink and watercolour on paper 36 x 52 cm The Courtauld Institute of Art, London |
1856 Mount Athos: Karakalou watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 31.2 x 50.2 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1856 Philates watercolour, ink and graphite on paper 23.5 x 32.1 cm Tate, London |
1856 The Monastery of Chilandari, Mount Athos, Greece pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with white 36.5 x 53.3 cm |
1856 The Monastery of Simopetra on Mount Athos watercolour and ink on paper 48.6 x 31.4 cm Tate, London |
1856 The Monastery of Xenophontos, Mount Athos, Greece pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour, heightened with touches of white 36.8 x 53.3 cm |
1856 View of Prinilla pen and brown ink, watercolour over pencil on wove paper 28.8 x 49.7 cm The Morgan Library and Museum, New York City |
1856c Athos from near Niacoro ( Neochorio ) watercolour on paper 23.5 x 31.7 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
1856c Lavra, with Thaos in the Distance watercolour on paper 14.6 x 22.2 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
1856c Near Pantokratora, Mount Athos watercolour on paper 23.5 x 32.1 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
1856c Philotheo, near Mount Athos watercolour on paper 23.5 x 35.6 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
1856c Zographou, Mount Athos watercolour on paper 34 x 50.8 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
1857 A View of Kouthlli, Zajoei, Greece watercolour over pencil with pen and brown ink heightened with white 17.5 x 24.8 cm |
1857 Agia Paraskevi, Epirus, Greece graphite, pen and brown ink and watercolour 32.8 x 51.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
1857 Corfu from the Village of Ascension oil on canvas 34 x 55 cm |
1857 Ioannina ( Jannena ), Greece pen and brown ink with watercolour over traces of pencil 14.5 x 22.8 cm |
1857 Jannena, Greece pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil 10.5 x 31.7 cm |
1857 Mount Athos watercolour, body-colour, gum Arabic, over black chalk outline on paper, laid down on card 29.8 x 46.6 cm The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK |
1857 The Valley of the Kalama, Greece pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil on paper 14 x 23 cm |
1858 A View in Corfu pen and brown ink with watercolour and graphite on paper 24.8 x 17.3 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum, London |
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