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Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) 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 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. 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 St Peter’s from Arco Oscuro
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Edward Lear Galera
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Edward Lear Pompey’s Pillar
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Edward Lear Near Calvi
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Edward Lear The Baths of Trajan
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Edward Lear Porto Venere
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Edward Lear Villa S. Firenze
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Edward Lear The Fortress of San George, near Argostoli, Cephalonia
1848
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