Pentedatelo, Calabria, Italy
Edward Lear
1847 (?)
Medium
Watercolor over graphite
Dimensions
Sheet (through mat): 10 1/4 × 20 9/16 in. (26 × 52.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Gordon Douglas III, 2014
Accession Number
2014.635.4
Tags
BuildingsLandscapes
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 ...