The Cedars of Lebanon
Edward Lear
1858
Medium
Watercolor, with pen and brown ink, over graphite, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
36.5 × 55.1 cm (14 3/8 × 21 3/4 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
242024
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 ...