Edward Lear (British artist, illustrator, author and poet) 1812 - 1888
Pamvotis Lake looking towards Aslan Pasha Mosque, Ioannina, s.d.
watercolour and gouache over pencil
16.5 x 26 cm. (6.5 x 10.25 in.)
private collection
Lear 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 a (minor) illustrator of Alfred Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense works, which use real and invented English words.
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