Artist and nonsense poet
Edward Lear
A bird painter who drew loose, funny pictures for his own nonsense verse.
On Picturepops™ cards · 24
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The Owl and the Pussy-cat Anniversaryby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Old Man with a Beardby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Broom and Shovelby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Let Us Be Marriedby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Never Go Backby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
The Jumbliesby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
The Old Person of Barby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Back on Your Feetby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Lovely Duckby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Old Man of Nepaulby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Owls Drink Teaby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Nobody Answers This Bellby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Come Under My Hatby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Who's Afraidby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
The Duck and the Kangarooby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Barred Owlby Elizabeth Gould and Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Red-footed Falconby Elizabeth Gould and Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Blue-and-yellow Macawby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Barn Owlby Elizabeth Gould and Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Tengmalm’s Owlby Elizabeth Gould and Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Australian Ringneckby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Red Kiteby Elizabeth Gould and Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Snowy Owl (Gould)by Elizabeth Gould and Edward Lear$13.00$18.00 -
Eagle Owlby Edward Lear$13.00$18.00
The life
1812-1888Born Holloway, Middlesex (now London), England
Edward Lear was drawing for a living by sixteen. In the 1830s he worked as a natural history artist, painting parrots and, for the Earl of Derby, the animals of the private menagerie at Knowsley Hall. He later traveled widely as a landscape painter. His comic verses, each with a quick pen drawing, were published as A Book of Nonsense in 1846, and the book helped make the limerick popular. More followed, including Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871), with The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, and More Nonsense (1872). He also set Tennyson's poems to music. He spent his last years in Sanremo, Italy. Picturepops cards use his nonsense drawings from 1846 to 1872.