A Town on a Hilltop (Sanctuary of Lampedusa)
Edward Lear
1884/1885
Medium
gray wash with touches of pen and black ink on card
Dimensions
sheet: 15.3 × 21 cm (6 × 8 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
Accession Number
2010.93.31
About the Artist
Edward Lear
Edward Lear (1812–1888) was a British artist, illustrator, author, and poet whose creative output ranged from meticulous natural history illustration to landscape painting and the beloved comic verse of his limericks and nonsense poetry. Born in London as the twentieth of twenty-one children, Lear largely educated himself as a draughtsman and began his professional career illustrating parrots for ...