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Edward Lear
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British artist, illustrator, author and poet (1812-1888)
Edward Lear was a British artist, illustrator, author, and poet who lived from 1812 to 1888. He is remembered for his contributions to multiple creative fields, blending visual and literary talents during the Victorian era.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1812
- Died
- 1888
- Works
- 536
Top works
- The complete nonsense of Edward Lear
- Limerick napulitane
- Views in the seven Ionian islands
- The two old bachelors
- A book of nonsense stories and pictures
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1939-11-18
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 823
- Total plays
- 2,707
Edward Lear was born in Highgate, a suburb of London, the 20th child of his parents and was raised by his eldest sister, Ann, twenty-one years his senior. At the age of fifteen, he and his sister had to leave the family home and set up house together. He started work as a serious illustrator and his first publication, at the age of 19, was Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots in 1830. His paintings were well received and he was favourably compared with John James Audubon. <a hr
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines
· 1953 · cited 29,731x
- Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.
· 2000 · cited 27,733x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,347x
- The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
· 2000 · cited 23,809x
- THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
· 1963 · cited 18,948x
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Quotes
- “There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, "It is just as I feared!—Two Owls and a Hen,Four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!"”
- “How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!Who has written such volumes of stuff!Some think him ill-tempered and queer,But a few think him pleasant enough.”
- “His mind is concrete and fastidious,His nose is remarkably big;His visage is more or less hideous,His beard it resembles a wig.”
- “Far and few, far and few,Are the lands where the Jumblies live;Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,And they went to sea in a Sieve.”
- “Calico Pie,The little Birds flyDown to the calico tree,Their wings were blue,And they sang "Tilly-loo!"Till away they flew,—And they never came back to me!”
- “Calico Jam,The little Fish swam,Over the syllabub sea,He took off his hat,To the Sole and the Sprat,And the Willeby-Wat,—But he never came back to me!”
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Described at
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Edward Lear self-caricature.jpg
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- Commons category
- Edward Lear
- date of birth
- 1812-05-12
- date of death
- 1888-01-29
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- Edward Lear
- name in native language
- Edward Lear
- P8168
- Longuesse
- P12749
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- described at URL
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBiwsbBxVK0
Sources (8)
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Works in European collections
9 objects attributed to Edward Lear, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Article
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised but which term he never used.
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.