Edward Lear - part 11

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