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Edward Lear: Media
English painter and writer
Images
Poet and painter Edward Lear
Edward Lear, c. 1880, married words and pictures in his various endeavors
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Landscape work
La Piana, watercolor by Edward Lear, 1868; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Regenstein Collection, reference no. 1967.19 (CC0)
Lear, Edward: Olive Trees
Olive Trees, oil on board by Edward Lear, 1857. 44.5 × 55.5 cm.
In a private collection
Interactives
A sampler of Edward Lear's limericks
A slideshow of pages from The Book of Nonsense to Which Is Added More Nonsense...
"The Book of Nonsense to Which is Added More Nonsense" by Edward Lear, c. 1902
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