The "Edward Lear" scrapbook (sketches from Italy, Greece, and the Middle East)

The "Edward Lear" scrapbook (sketches from Italy, Greece, and the Middle East)

Edward LearWW-1830-128151

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Year
1830

Artist

Edward Lear
Edward Lear

Painting

Edward Lear 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.

London, UK

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