Bracciano (Views of Rome and Its Environs, plate 2)
Medium
Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 15 3/8 x 10 3/8 in. (39 x 26.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.897
Tags
BuildingsLandscapesTrees
About the Artist
Edward Lear|T. M'Lean
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 ...