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| 1988 UK Postage stamp issued on the centenary of Lear's death |
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 - 20 also.
This is part 21 of 21- part series on the works of Edward Lear.
Undated images:
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| n.d. British Philae oil on canvas 24 x 46 cm |
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| n.d. Cefalu, Sicily watercolour 11.5 x 18 cm |
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| n.d. Cervara, Rome, Italy hand-coloured lithograph |
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| n.d. Church of the SS. Quattro Coronati, Rome watercolour and graphite on paper 23.5 x 32.4 cm Tate, London |
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| n.d. Collepardo, Italy lithograph Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
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| n.d. Corfu from Pantaleone watercolour on paper 18.1 x 38.2 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
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| n.d. Delphi, Greece watercolour 12 x 19 cm |
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| n.d. Fountain of the Sea-Horses in the Garden of the Villa Borghese, Rome graphite on paper 23.5 x 33.7 cm Tate, London |
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| n.d. Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives pencil and watercolour heightened with white 17 x 37 cm |
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| n.d. Landscape with a Stream and a Footbridge watercolour over pencil on wove paper 16.4 x 32.5 cm The Morgan Library and Museum, New York |
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| n.d. Lugano, Switzerland watercolour with touches of gum arabic 12.3 x 18.6 cm |
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| n.d. Mount Olympus, Greece watercolour over traces of pencil 13.2 x 26.4 cm |
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| n.d. Mt. Aeta ( from Lamia ), Greece brush and grey wash on paper 9.5 x 14.6 cm The Morgan Library and Museum, New York |
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| n.d. Olevano, Italy lithograph |
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| n.d. Pamvotis Lake looking towards Aslan Pasha Mosque, Ioannina watercolour and gouache over pencil 16.5 x 26 cm |
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| n.d. Phyle Attica, Greece watercolour and gouache heightened with gum arabic 16.5 x 26 cm |
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| n.d. Ponte del Vecchio, Corsica pen and black ink with wash, white gouache and graphite on paper 13.4 x 20.9 cm The Morgan Library and Museum, New York City |
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| n.d. Ponte delle Maddalena, Bagni di Lucca watercolour 16 x 25.5 cm |
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| n.d. Porta Maggiore, Rome gouache and watercolour on paper 23.5 x 38.4 cm Tate, London |
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| n.d. Rocca Giovane, Italy lithograph |
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| n.d. S. Francesco di Paola graphite and watercolour on paper 15.6 x 10.8 cm Tate, London |
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| n.d. San Miniato al Monte graphite, watercolour and ink on paper Tate, London |
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| n.d. Santa Maria Della Salute from across the Bacino, Venice watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of body-colour 11.5 x 17.5 cm |
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| n.d. Sparta watercolour on paper 17.1 x 37.5 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
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| n.d. The Baths of Trajan, Rome watercolour and graphite on paper 23.5 x 30.2 cm Tate, London |
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| n.d. The Dead Sea, Jordan watercolour and body-colour, heightened with white 17.7 x 37.5 cm |
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| n.d. The Grand Canal with Santa Maria della Salute, Venice pen and ink and watercolour over pencil on paper 34.9 x 50.1 cm The Morgan Library and Museum, New York City |
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| n.d. The Walls of Constantinople pencil and watercolour heightened with white 17 x 37.2 cm |
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| n.d. Tivoli lithograph Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
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| n.d. Valetta, Malta watercolour over pencil heightened with body-colour 11.3 x 18.3 cm |
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| n.d. Via Porta Pinciana, Rome colour lithograph |
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| n.d. View from Monte Generoso watercolour heightened with white on paper 17.1 x 37.5 cm The Morgan Library and Museum, New York City |
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| n.d. View of Florence from San Miniato, Italy pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour 34.6 x 54.6 cm |
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| n.d. View of Menton from across the Bay pencil, watercolour and body-colour 16.5 x 26 cm |
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| n.d. View of Mount Sinai watercolour with some white tempera, over pencil, on cream-coloured wove paper 17.8 x 37.6 cm The Morgan Library and Museum, New York City |
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| n.d. View of the Bay of Ragusa ( now Dubrovnik ) watercolour on paper 16.8 x 26.3 cm National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
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| n.d. Wady Halfeh, Nile, Nubia brush and grey wash on paper 9.5 x 14.6 cm The Morgan Library and Museum, New York |
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| n.d. Woman with Two Children in a Landscape pen and brown ink with pink, blue and orange watercolour on paper 11.3 x 8.6 cm The Morgan Library and Museum, New York City |
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n.d. Letter to Mrs Ellen Rawson
Letters to a patron. Ellen Rawson was married to William Henry Rawson, a wealthy banker, landowner, and prominent citizen of Halifax. She
was a keen collector of the work of various living artists, and this
correspondence begins after her purchase of a view of "Beirut" by Lear.
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| n.d. Limerick "There was a old Archbishop of Dublin" ink on paper 8.6 x 10.5 cm |
