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| 1884 Self-Portrait |
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 - 14 also.
This is part 15 of 21- part series on the works of Edward Lear.
1862c A Nonsense Alphabet:
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| A were some Ants |
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| B was a Broom |
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| C was a Cat |
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| D was a Duck |
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| E was an Eagle |
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| F were some Fish |
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| G was a Goat |
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| H was a Hat |
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| I was some Ice |
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| J was a Jar |
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| K was a Kite |
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| L was a Letter |
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| M was a Mill |
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| N were some Nuts |
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| O was an Owl |
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| P was a Pig |
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| Q was a Quail |
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| R was a Rabbit |
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| S was a Snail |
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| T was a Tower |
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| U was a Ukase |
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| V was a Veil |
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| W was a Whale |
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| X was King Xerxes |
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| Y was a Yew |
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| Z was some Zinc |
1863 Views in the Seven Ionian Islands
20 tinted lithographed plates published by Edward Lear:
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| Title page View from "One Gun Battery", Corfu |
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| No. 1. View from above the village of Ascension, Corfú |
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| No. 2. Mount San Salvador, Corfu |
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| No. 3. View from the Orange Gardens of Viro, Corfu |
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| No. 4. View from the route to Benitsa, near Gastouri, Corfu |
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| No. 5. View from the hill of Santi Deka, Corfu |
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| No. 6. Palaiokastritza, Corfu |
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| No. 7. Castel Sant' Angelo, Corfu |
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| No. 8. The villages of Léfchimo, Corfu |
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| No. 9. View from the Fort, Santa Maura |
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| No. 10. Amaxíchi and the Fort, Santa Maura |
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| No. 11. Capo Ducato, or Sappho's Leap, Santa Maura |
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| 12. Argostóli and the Black Mountain, Cephalonia |
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| No. 13 Walls of Ancient Samos, Cephalonia |
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| No. 14. Town and Fortress of Assos, Cephalonia |
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| 15. View from the Castle Hill, looking towards Monte Skopó, Zante |
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| No. 16 View from Monte Skopó, Zante |
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| No. 17. View from the village of Galaro, Zante |
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| No. 18. Town and Harbour of Caïo, Paxo |
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| ( No. 18. see above ) Town and Harbour of Caïo, Paxo hand-coloured lithograph |
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| No. 19. Harbour and Town of Vathý, Ithaca |
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| No. 20. The Castle and Town of Cerigo and Port of Kapsáli, Cerico |
1865 Venice:
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| 1865 A Venetian Sail Barge brush and red ink, watercolour, touches of body-colour, traces of graphite 11.5 x 17 cm |
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| 1865 San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy pencil and watercolour 16.5 x 26 cm |
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| 1865 Santa Maria della Salute, Venice watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of body-colour 11.5 x 17.5 cm |
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| 1865 Venice watercolour over pencil 29.5 x 49 cm |
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| 1865-84 Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, at Sunset watercolour and gouache over graphite on wove paper 11.9 x 17.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1865-66 Malta:
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| 1866 A Distant View of Mdina, Malta watercolour over pencil heightened with body-colour and gum arabic 16.2 x 26 cm |
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| 1866 Ainselim, Gozo watercolour over pencil with pen and brown ink and body-colour 22.1 x 35.5 cm |
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| 1866 Fomm Ir-Rih, Malta pen and brown ink and watercolour 15.3 x 25.3 cm |
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| 1866 Gozo watercolour over pencil with pen and brown ink 19.5 x 35.6 cm |
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| 1866 Mdina pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour on buff paper 33 x 52 cm |
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| 1866 Mtahleb, Malta watercolour heightened with body-colour 36.2 x 53.3 cm |
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| 1866 Valetta, Malta pen and brown ink over pencil with watercolour 36.1 x 54.7 cm |
