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 - 17 also.
This is part 18 of 21- part series on the works of Edward Lear.
1873-77 India:
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| 1873 Barrackpore watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 30.2 x 45.4 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1873 Lucknow watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 17.6 x 25.6 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1873 Marble Rocks watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 17 x 35.2 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1873 Marble Rocks watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 35.5 x 50.8 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1873 Near Jabalpur: Marble Rocks watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 17 x 35.4 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Marble Rocks watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 34.7 x 50.7 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1873 Varanasi watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on white paper 34 x 50.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1873-75c A Temple in India watercolour heightened with white over traces of pencil on paper 15.5 x 25.7 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Agra watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 36.8 x 52.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Arrah watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 24.5 x 31.6 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Bangalore watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 34.5 x 24.9 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Bangalore watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 17.3 x 35.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Below Rajpur watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 13.8 x 22.6 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Bharatpur watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 23.4 x 35.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Calcutta: Bamboo watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 45.3 x 30.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Calicut watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 22.5 x 28.8 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Calicut watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 32.4 x 50.6 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Coonoor watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 36 x 55.8 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Dehi: Qutb Minar watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 35.8 x 54.4 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Govardhun watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 36.2 x 52.7 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Gwalior watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 19.7 x 51.8 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Hyderabad watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 32.8 x 55.2 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Kurseong watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 35.3 x 50.8 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Landour-mussooree watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 37.2 x 54.2 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Mount Kinchinjunga ( All Things Fair ), Himalayas grey wash and brush on wove paper 9.6 x 14.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1874 Mussooree from Rajpur watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 30.3 x 45.7 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Near Hardwar watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 27.5 x 45 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Ootacamund watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 34.5 x 54.8 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Poona watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 37.2 x 54.3 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Poona watercolour, gouache and sepia ink over graphite on blue paper 17.9 x 25.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Poona watercolour, gouache and sepia ink over graphite on blue paper 18 x 25.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Poona watercolour, gouache and sepia ink over graphite on blue paper 18 x 25.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Roorkee watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 25.5 x 35.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Roorkee watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 34.8 x 50.8 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Saharanpur watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 17.5 x 25.2 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Simla watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 21 x 34.7 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Simla watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 37.9 x 54.2 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Simla watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 38.4 x 54 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Simla watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 38.4 x 55.9 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Tiruchirappalli watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 38.2 x 55.4 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1874 Wai watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 17.1 x 35.5 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1875 Coonoor watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 35.8 x 56.2 cm Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University |
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| 1875 View near Conoor, Nilcheris, India watercolour on paper 25.5 x 40.1 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
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| 1877 Kinchenjunga from Darjeeling oil on canvas 161.2 x 224.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff, UK |
1878-82 Indian Trees, Palms and Bamboos - an album of original watercolours 48.3 x 30 cm:
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| Letter from Edward Lear to Sir Joseph Hooker, 1878 |
