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Edward Lear (12 May 1812, Holloway – 29 January 1888, Sanremo) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, now known 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, Lord Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes, and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.
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Edward Lear The Monastery of Simopetra on Mount Athos
1856
Edward Lear View of Jerusalem
1858
Edward Lear Philates
1856
Edward Lear The Pyramids with the Sphinx and Palms
1858
Edward Lear Galera
1842
Edward Lear View near Cairo
1858
Edward Lear Pompey’s Pillar
1858
Edward Lear The Capitol, from the Forum
?1838
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