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 - 10 also.
This is part 11 of 21- part series on the works of Edward Lear.
1858-1859 The Middle East:
1858 ( Dead Sea? ) watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 15.4 x 25.1 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1858 Beirut watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on blue paper 35.7 x 53.7 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1858 Cedars of Lebanon watercolour on paper 35.5 x 54.6 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1858-66 Cedars of Lebanon pencil 18.5 x 19.6 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1858 Deir mar sabbas pen and brown ink, watercolour wash over graphite 35.2 x 50.3 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
1858 Jerusalem watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on blue paper 19.5 x 30.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1858 Masada ( or Sebbeh ) on the Dead Sea oil on canvas 47.6 x 76.2 cm de Young / Legion of Honour Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
1858 Masada pen and brown ink and watercolour touched with white 17.5 x 25.1 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1858 Near Jericho pen and brown ink over pencil, watercolour and gouache touched with white 13.9 x 25.1 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1858 Petra ( Jordan ) pen and brown ink over pencil, watercolour heightened with white 36.6 x 54.4 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1858 Petra pen and brown ink with watercolour 34 x 25 cm |
1858 Pompey’s Pillar graphite, ink and watercolour on paper Tate, London |
1858 The Dead Sea oil on canvas 24.5 x 38 cm Dublin City Gallery, Ireland |
1858 The Gorge at Suk Wady Barada, Lebanon pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil, on grey paper 36.5 x 52.5 cm |
1858-1862 ( dated twice ) Baalbek, Lebanon watercolour 18 x 37 cm |
1858c The Dead Sea, Jordan watercolour and body-colour, heightened with white 17.7 x 37.5 cm |
1858c The Valley of Jehosaphat with Jerusalem Beyond watercolour and body-colour 9.5 x 19.5 cm |
1859 Jerusalem looking North West oil on canvas 47 x 75.5 cm |
1859 Petra oil on canvas 91 x 147 cm |
1859 San Sabbas pen and ink and sepia wash 20.5 x 30.5 cm |
1861 A Book of Nonsense 3rd edition
Original drawings in Harvard College Library:
There was an old man with a beard |
There was a young lady of Ryde |
There was an old man with a nose |
There was an old man on a hill |
There was a young lady whose bonnet |
There was a young person of Smyrna |
There was an old man of Chile |
There was an old man with a gong |
There was a young lady of Chertsey |
There was an old man in a tree |
There was an old man with a flute |
There was a young lady whose chin |
There was an old man in a boat |
There was a young lady of Portugal |
There was an old person of Leeds |
There was a young person of Crete |
There was an old man who supposed |
There was an old person whose habits |
There was an old person of Dover |
There was an old person of Basing |
There was an old person of Philae |
There was an old man with a poker |
There was an old person of Mold |
There was a young lady of Lucca |
There was an old person of Cromer |
There was an old person of Tring |
There was an old man on some rocks |
There was an old man who said, "How, |
There was an old man of Whitehaven |
There was an old person of Dutton |
There was an old man who said, "Hush! - |
There was an old person of Bangor |
There was an old person of Anerley |
There was an old person of Spain |
There was an old man who said, "Well! |
There was an old man with an owl |
There was an old man at a Casement |
There was an old man of Aôsta |
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