Cervara
Edward Lear
1801 to 1825
Medium
hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 26.4 × 40.3 cm (10 3/8 × 15 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Miss Katharine Shepard
Accession Number
1975.102.1
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 ...