Agia Paraskevi, Epirus, Greece
Edward Lear
April 13, 1857
Medium
Graphite, pen and brown ink and watercolor
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 15/16 x 20 1/8 in. (32.8 x 51.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013
Accession Number
2013.110
Tags
Mountains
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 ...