Edward Lear
(1812 - 1888)
(1812 - 1888)
Edward Lear was an English writer and illustrator who is known 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 make illustrations of birds and animals, making coloured drawings during his journeys (which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books) and as a minor illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lea
His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals, making coloured drawings during his journeys (which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books) and as a minor illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lea
Philae, Egypt
1863
Oil on canvas
27.5 x 53.3 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:173
1863
Oil on canvas
27.5 x 53.3 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:173
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