Collepardo
Edward Lear
1841
Medium
Tint lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Stone: 24.3 × 38.7 cm (9 5/8 × 15 1/4 in.); Sheet: 36.8 × 53.8 cm (14 1/2 × 21 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129491
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 ...