Monastir
Edward Lear
September 19, 1848
Medium
Watercolor and pen and ink on gray paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 11 1/2 in. (20.7 × 29.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Allen Staley, 2019
Accession Number
2019.460
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 ...