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 - 8 also.
This is part 9 of 21- part series on the works of Edward Lear.
1848 Turkey:
1848 Abadolu Hisar sepia ink, sepia and blue wash over graphite on cream paper 24.1 x 37 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1848 Anadoluhisari, Istanbul, on the Bosphorus pencil, pen and brown ink and brown wash on paper 27.4 x 35.4 cm |
1848 Bebek sepia ink and wash over graphite on cream paper 20 x 32.3 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1848 Buyukdere sepia ink, green and ochre wash over graphite on cream paper 20.2 x 32 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1848 Buyukdere sepia ink, sepia and blue grey wash over graphite on cream paper 17 x 32.2 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1848 Buyukdere watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 12.8 x 23 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1848 Fishermen’s houses on the Bosphorus pen and brown ink, watercolour, heightened with white 10.3 x 21.4 cm |
1848 Istanbul sepia ink and wash over graphite on cream paper 22.6 x 32.2 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1848 Istanbul sepia ink, sepia and green wash over graphite on cream paper 21 x 32.3 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1848 Istanbul watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper 25.2 x 17 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1848 Kirecburnu sepia ink, sepia, ochre, grey and green wash over graphite on cream paper 21 x 31.2 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1848 Near Istanbul sepia ink, sepia, ochre, green and purple wash over graphite on cream paper 34.5 x 52.9 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1848 Pera sepia ink, sepia and blue grey wash over graphite on cream paper 21.1 x 32.3 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1848 Uskudar sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 18.8 x 32.4 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1848 Uskudar sepia ink, sepia and brown wash over graphite on cream paper 31.2 x 23.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1848 Macedonia:
1848 View of Ohrid, Macedonia watercolour, body-colour and gum arabic over pencil 11.5 x 17.8 cm |
1849 Egypt:
1849 ( Egypt ) watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper 15 x 25.9 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1849 Gebel Serbal from above Wadi Useit, Egypt pen and brown ink and watercolour over traces of pencil 12 x 22.5 cm |
1849 Gebel Serbal, Egypt pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil 13 x 22.5 cm |
1849 Junction of Wadis, Egypt pen and brown ink and watercolour over traces of pencil, on wove paper 15 x 22.5 cm |
1849 Mt. Sinai pen and brown ink, watercolour and body-colour, touched with white, on blue paper 15.5 x 23.1 cm © Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1849 Near Wadi El-Sheikh watercolour and sepia ink on white paper 11.6 x 19.4 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1849 Wadi Tayibeh, Egypt pen and brown ink and watercolour over traces of pencil 14 x 22.5 cm |
1849 Greece:
1849 Athens pen and brown ink and watercolour on paper 28.9 x 52 cm The Courtauld Institute of Art, London |
1849 Athens watercolour on paper 19.7 x 31.7 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
1849 Between Ioannina and Metzovon watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 22.8 x 14 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1849 Between Louron and Kanza sepia ink, sepia and blue wash over graphite on cream paper 21.2 x 32 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1849 Delphi sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 52.3 x 36.8 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1849 Kastraki watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on tan paper 27.5 x 46.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1849 Lake Ozeros sepia ink, sepia, ochre and purple wash over graphite on white paper 22.2 x 32.2 Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1849 Leondari watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 32 x 52.7 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1849 Levadhia watercolour on paper 12.7 x 22.5 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
1849 Meteora watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper 34.7 x 52.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1849 Meteora: Varlaam watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper 32.8 x 52.7 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1849 Mount Parnassus graphite and watercolour on paper 12.3 x 18.3 cm The Courtauld Institute of Art, London |
1849 Near Dramisios watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on pale grey paper 26 x 43.4 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1849 Phyle sepia ink over graphite on tan paper 24.9 x 36.6 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1849 Suli watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 32.2 x 23.2 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1949 Pashana's Bridge sepia ink, blue, green and yellow wash over graphite on cream paper 31.2 x 45.3 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
1851 Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania and Greece published by Richard Bentley & c. London:
1851 Ákhridha ( Ohrid )lithograph |
1851 Archyrókastro ( Gjirokästër )lithograph |
1851 Arta ( Arta )lithograph |
1851 Avlóna ( Vlorë )lithograph |
1851 Berát ( Berat )lithograph |
1851 Durázzo ( Durazzo )lithograph |
1851 Ioannina ( Ioannina )lithograph |
1851 Khimára ( Himarë )lithograph |
1851 Króia ( Krujë )lithograph |
1851 Metéora ( Meteora )lithograph |
1851 Monastir lithograph |
1851 Nicópolis ( Nicopolis )lithograph |
1851 Párga ( Parga )lithograph |
1851 Skódra ( Shkodër )lithograph |
1851 Suli ( Souli )lithograph |
1851 Tepeléni ( Tepelenë )lithograph |
1851 Témpe ( Tempi )lithograph |
1851 Tyrana ( Tirana )lithograph |
1851 Vodhena ( The Waterfalls of Edessa )lithograph |
1851 Yenidjé ( Giannitsa )lithograph |