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Details for Lear, Edward

Full name: Lear, Edward

This person or thing (agent) has been used 37 times within our collections systems.

As a maker of objects: 37 times.

Biographical note

British artist, 1812-1888
British painter, 1812-1888
British painter, printmaker, author, 1812-1888
British, 1812-1888

Type of agent

Creator

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Drawing

Mount Athos

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lear, Edward

Later Letters of Edward Lear...to Chichester Fortescue (Lord Carlingford), Frances Countess Waldegrave and Others

Maker(s)

Author: Lear, Edward
Editor: Strachey, Constance Braham Strachey, Baroness
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin

An image of Painting

The Temple of Apollo at Bassae

Maker(s)

Painter: Lear, Edward

Islands off the shore at Kanoni, Corfu

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lear, Edward

Study of papyrus

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lear, Edward

View of Segesta, Sicily, 1847

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lear, Edward

A drawing book alphabet

Maker(s)

Author: Lear, Edward
Contributor: Hofer, Philip
Publisher: Harvard College Library. Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts

Illustrated Excursions in Italy (second series)

Maker(s)

Author: Lear, Edward
Printmaker: Lear, Edward
Publisher: McLean, Thomas
Printer: Bentley, S & J

Illustrated Excursions in Italy (first series)

Maker(s)

Author: Lear, Edward
Printmaker: Lear, Edward
Publisher: McLean, Thomas
Printer: Bentley, S & J

Letters of Edward Lear: Author of The Book of Nonsense, to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, Frances Countess Waldegrave

Maker(s)

Author: Lear, Edward
Editor: Strachey, Constance Braham Strachey, Baroness
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin

Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, &c.

Maker(s)

Author: Lear, Edward
Illustrator: Lear, Edward
Publisher: Bentley, Richard

Journals of a Landscape Painter in Corsica

Maker(s)

Author: Lear, Edward
Illustrator: Lear, Edward
Publisher: Bentley, Richard

Journals of a landscape painter in Albania, &c.

Maker(s)

Author: Lear, Edward
Printmaker: Lear, Edward
Publisher: Bentley, Richard

Rome and its Environs, drawn from nature and on stone

Maker(s)

Author: Lear, Edward
Printmaker: Lear, Edward
Publisher: McLean, Thomas
Printer: Hullmandel, Charles Joseph

Ain el-Sultan, Jericho 7 May 1858

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lear, Edward

Venosa

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lear, Edward

An image of Drawing

Selmun Palace, Malta

Maker(s)

Lear, Edward

The book of nonsense

Maker(s)

Writer: Lear, Edward
Illustrator: Lear, Edward
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co.

Citta Vecchia from near the Musta, Malta

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lear, Edward

Sea and landscape, Santa Maura

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lear, Edward

"Ye artist rises up ..."

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lear, Edward

"Ye Artist in dressing becomes involved in his linen garmint"

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lear, Edward

"Ye artist leaves the wonderfulle bedde..."

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lear, Edward

"...Ye artist reposes on the South side of ye wonderfulle Bedde"

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Lear, Edward

Citation for print

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Agent details for Lear, Edward" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/agent/agent-77454 Accessed: 2025-04-17 20:26:28

Citation for Wikipedia

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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/agent/agent-77454|title=Agent details for Lear, Edward|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-04-17 20:26:28|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

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