Edward Lear

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Edward Lear, English artist and illustrator, May 12, 1812 – January 29, 1888

Edward Lear, 1866

A Weasel, 1832

Watercolor with pen in brown ink, with gouache and gum over graphite on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, 7.4 x 11 in //

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

Greater Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo, 1832

Lithograph on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper, 22 x 15.1 in //

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

Head of a Chimpanzee, 1835

Watercolor painting over graphite drawing

Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Landscape with Goatherd, c 1842

Oil on canvas, 10.5 x 14.5 in //

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

A Young Lady of Hull, from A Book of Nonsense, 1846

Shkodra: Albanians Smoking by the River Drin, 1851

Howakte 10.45 AM, 1867

Watercolor with pen in brown ink and gouache over graphite on wove paper, 3 1/8

x 5 1/4 inches //

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut.

Masada on the Dead Sea, 1858

Oil on canvas, 18 3/4 x 30 in //

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Cover for A Book of Nonsense, 1862

Dwejra, 1886

The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Greece, c 1870:

Pencil and watercolor heightened with white, on buff paper, 3 7/8 × 7 5/8 in

J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Edward Lear Playing the Piano

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