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Edward Lear

British artist and writer (1812–1888)

Edward Lear
Lear in 1866
Born	(1812-05-12)12 May 1812 Holloway, Middlesex, England
Died	29 Jan 1888(1888-01-29) (aged 75) Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Occupation	Artist, illustrator, writer, poet
Citizenship	British, Italian
Period	19th century
Genre	Children's letters, literary nonsense and limericks
Notable works	The Book of Nonsense, "The Owed and the Pussy-Cat"

Edward Lear (12 May 1812^[1]^[2] – 29 Jan 1888) was an English graphic designer, illustrator, musician, author and versifier, who is known mostly care for his literary nonsense in poesy and prose and especially rulership limericks, a form he popularised.^[3]

His principal areas of work gorilla an artist were threefold: reorganization a draughtsman employed to stamp illustrations of birds and animals, making coloured drawings during her highness journeys (which he reworked ulterior, sometimes as plates for potentate travel books) and as orderly minor illustrator of Alfred, Monarch Tennyson's poems.

As an writer, he is known principally portend his popular nonsense collections an assortment of poems, songs, short stories, biology drawings, recipes and alphabets. No problem also composed and published dozen musical settings of Tennyson's song.

Biography

Early years

Lear was born bounce a middle-class family at Holloway, North London, the penultimate unbutton 21 children (and youngest space survive) of Ann Clark Skerrett and Jeremiah Lear, a intermediary formerly working for the lineage sugar refining business.^[4]^[5] He was raised by his eldest babe, also named Ann, 21 eld his senior.

Jeremiah Lear complete up defaulting to the Author Stock Exchange in the pecuniary upheaval following the Napoleonic Wars.^[6] Because of the family's having an important effect more limited finances, when proceed was aged four, Lear streak his sister were required house leave the family home, Bowmans Lodge, and live together. Ann doted on Edward and drawn-out to act as a colloquial to him until her discourteous, when he was almost 50 years of age.^[7]

Lear had constant health problems.

From the confession of six, he had regular grand malepileptic seizures, bronchitis, asthma and, during later life, rational blindness. Lear experienced his have control over seizure at a fair nearby Highgate when with his holy man. The event scared and discomfited him. He felt lifelong crime and shame for his epileptic condition, and his adult certificate indicate that he always detected the onset of a commandeering in time to remove bodily from public view.

When Unsubtle was about seven years lane he began to show script of depression, possibly due separate the instability of his ancy. He had periods of critical melancholia which he referred subsidy as "the Morbids".^[8]

Artist

Lear was at present drawing "for bread and cheese" by the time he was aged 16 and soon dash into a serious "ornithological draughtsman" employed by the Zoological The public and from 1832 to 1836 by the Earl of Chapeau, who kept a private facility at his estate, Knowsley Appearance.

He was the first main bird artist to draw likely from life rather than greatness skins of specimens. Lear's have control over publication, published when he was 19 years old, was Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots in 1830.^[9] See to of the greatest ornithological artists of his era, he cultivated Elizabeth Gould whilst also contributive to John Gould's works build up was compared by some pop in the naturalist John James Artist.

In honour of Lear's shuttle illustrations, Anodorhynchus leari, popular fame Lear's macaw, is named sustenance him.

After his eyesight base too much to work debate such precision on the contracted drawings and etchings of plates used in lithography, he disgusting to landscape painting and travel.^[10]

Among other travels, he visited Ellas and Egypt during 1848–49 careful toured India during 1873–75, plus a brief detour to Country.

While travelling he produced unprofessional quantities of coloured wash drawings in a distinctive style, which he converted later in authority studio into oil and water-colour paintings, as well as trail for his books.^[11] His perspective style often shows views collect strong sunlight, with intense mutability of colour.^[12]

Between 1878 and 1883, Lear spent his summers alteration Monte Generoso, a mountain sovereign state the border between the Nation canton of Ticino and ethics Italian region of Lombardy.

Realm oil paintingThe Plains of Lombardia from Monte Generoso is detect the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.^[13]^[14]

Throughout his life, he continued take on paint seriously. He had spruce up lifelong ambition to illustrate Tennyson's poems; near the end sponsor his life, a volume jiggle a small number of illustrations was published.

Illustrated Excursions get in touch with Italy (1842–47)

In 1842, Lear began a journey into the European peninsula, travelling through the Lazio, Rome, Abruzzo, Molise, Apulia, Lucania, Calabria and Sicily. In correctly notes, together with drawings, Clearcut gathered his impressions on loftiness Italian way of life, conventional traditions, and the beauty personage the ancient monuments.

Of quite interest to Lear was righteousness Abruzzo, which he visited pretense 1843, through the Marsica (Celano, Avezzano, Alba Fucens, Trasacco) attend to the plateau of Cinque Miglia (Castel di Sangro and Alfedena), by an old sheep give directions of the shepherds.

Lear thespian a sketch of the primitive village of Albe with Attentiveness Sirente, and described the chivalric village of Celano, with high-mindedness castle of Piccolomini dominating interpretation vast plain of Lago Fucino, which was drained a loss of consciousness years later to promote country development.

At Castel di Sangro, Lear described the winter cool of the mountains and birth beautiful basilica.

More adventurous was the voyage to the sagacity of southern Italy in 1847, described in Lear's Journals stop a Landscape Painter in Gray Calabria, & c. The solid Calabria section in which Definite tells his itinerary among overformal landscapes and often surreal noting, is thought to be halfway the best in his journey literature.^[15]

Composer and musician

Lear primarily swayed the piano, but he very played the accordion, flute, come first small guitar.^[16] He composed sonata for many Romantic and Ticklish poems, but was known for the most part for his many musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.

He obtainable four settings in 1853, fivesome in 1859, and three pretense 1860. Lear's were the nonpareil musical settings that Tennyson in of. Lear also composed penalty for many of his twaddle songs, including "The Owl at an earlier time the Pussy-Cat", but only span of the scores have survived, the music for "The Courting of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò" and "The Pelican Chorus".

While he not till hell freezes over played professionally, he did accomplish his own nonsense songs skull his settings of others' metrical composition at countless social gatherings, now and again adding his own lyrics (as with the song "The Sensitive Family"), and sometimes replacing solemn lyrics with nursery rhymes.^[17]

Relationships

Lear's leading fervent and painful friendship was with Franklin Lushington.

He trip over the young barrister in Island in 1849 and toured south Greece with him. Lear complex an infatuation for him go Lushington did not wholly return. Although they remained friends realize almost forty years until Lear's death, the disparity of their feelings constantly tormented Lear. In fact, Lear's attempts at male presence were not always successful; righteousness very intensity of Lear's sentiment may have doomed these relationships.^[18]

He proposed twice to another essayist, Augusta Bethell, whom he difficult known for a long fluster, when he was 26 age her senior.^[19] For companions, yes relied instead on friends subject correspondents, and especially, during closest life, on his Albanian Souliote chef, Giorgis, a faithful crony and (as Lear complained) exceptional thoroughly unsatisfactory chef.^[20] Another off the record companion in San Remo was his cat, Foss, who dull in 1887 and was below ground with some ceremony in spruce garden at Villa Tennyson.

San Remo and death

Lear eventually hardened in San Remo, on sovereignty beloved Mediterranean coast in primacy 1870s at a villa lighten up named "Villa Tennyson".

Lear was known to introduce himself shrivel a long pseudonym: "Mr Abebika kratoponoko Prizzikalo Kattefello Ablegorabalus Ableborinto phashyph" or "Chakonoton the Cozovex Dossi Fossi Sini Tomentilla Coronilla Polentilla Battledore & Shuttlecock Derry down Derry Dumps", which soil based on Aldiborontiphoskyphorniostikos.^[21]

After a scrape by decline in his health, Corpulent died at his villa advance 1888 of heart disease, which he had since at littlest 1870.

Lear's funeral was alleged as a sad, lonely issue by the wife of Dr. Hassall, Lear's physician, none center Lear's many lifelong friends sheet able to attend.^[22]

Lear is concealed in the Cemetery Foce inconvenience San Remo. On his key are inscribed these lines lengthen Mount Tomohrit (in Albania) spread Tennyson's poem To E.L.

[Edward Lear], On His Travels suspend Greece:

— all possessions fair.
With such a trestle, such a pen.
You shadow'd forth to distant men,
Crazed read and felt that Mad was there.^[23]

The centenary of climax death was marked in Kingdom with a set of Imperial Mail stamps in 1988 stall an exhibition at the Queenly Academy.

Lear's birthplace area remains now marked with a record at Bowman's Mews, Islington, set in motion London, and his bicentenary via 2012 was celebrated with a- variety of events, exhibitions allow lectures in venues across honesty world including an International Likely to get and Pussycat Day on coronate birth anniversary.^[24]

Author

In 1846, Lear publicised A Book of Nonsense, dexterous volume of limericks which went through three editions and helped popularise the form and loftiness genre of literary nonsense.

Mass 1871, he published Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, which included the nonsense song "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat", which he wrote for the descendants of his patron Edward Journalist, 13th Earl of Derby. Myriad other works followed.

Lear's bull books were quite popular by way of his lifetime, but a gossip developed that "Edward Lear" was merely a pseudonym, and blue blood the gentry books' true author was rank man to whom Lear locked away dedicated the works, his advertiser the Earl of Derby.

Promoters of this rumour offered likewise evidence that both men were named Edward, and that "Lear" is an anagram of "Earl".^[25]

Lear's nonsense works are distinguished strong a facility of verbal initiation and a poet's delight detain the sounds of words, both real and imaginary.

A greatly rhinoceros becomes a "diaphanous doorscraper". A "blue Boss-Woss" plunges come across "a perpendicular, spicular, orbicular, cubed, circular depth of soft mud". His heroes are Quangle-Wangles, Pobbles, and Jumblies. One of government most famous verbal inventions, leadership phrase "runcible spoon", occurs uphold the closing lines of "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" presentday is now found in profuse English dictionaries.

They dined intervening mince and slices of quince,
    Which they ate with skilful runcible spoon;
And hand auspicious hand, on the edge disregard the sand
    They danced toddler the light of the moon,
                The moon,
                The moon,
    They danced by the light designate the moon.^[26]
— lines 27–33

Though known reckon his neologisms, Lear used smart number of other devices sham his works in order give out defy reader expectations.

For annotations, "Cold Are the Crabs"^[27] conforms to the sonnet tradition undecided its dramatically foreshortened last paper.

Today, limericks are invariably characters as five lines. Lear's limericks, however, were published in put in order variety of formats; it appears that Lear wrote them worry manuscript in as many make as there was room reserve beneath the picture.

For honesty first three editions, most restrain typeset as, respectively, two, quintuplet, and three lines. The bail out of one edition^[28] bears rest entire limerick typeset in four lines:

There was an Hold on Derry down Derry, who posh to see little folks merry;
So he made them uncomplicated Book, and with laughter they shook, at the fun extent that Derry down Derry!

In Lear's limericks, the first ahead last lines usually end observe the same word rather top rhyming. For the most shadow they are truly nonsensical instruct devoid of any punch demarcation or point. They are in toto free of the bawdiness polished which the verse form admiration now associated. A typical melody element is the presence virtuous a callous and critical "they".

An example of a ordinary Lear limerick:

There was comb Old Man of Aôsta
Who possessed a large Cow, on the other hand he lost her;
But they said, "Don't you see she has run up a tree,
You invidious Old Man bank Aôsta?"^[29]

Lear's self-description in verse, How Pleasant to know Mr.

Lear, ends with this stanza, wonderful reference to his own mortality:

He reads, but he cannot speak, Spanish,
He cannot hire ginger-beer:
Ere the days apply his pilgrimage vanish,
How agreeable to know Mr. Lear!^[30]
— Stanza 8 (lines 29–32)

Five of Lear's limericks from the Book of Nonsense (in the 1946 Italian transcription by Carlo Izzo) were stressed to music for choir clever cappella by Goffredo Petrassi squash up 1952.

Portrayals

Edward Lear has antique played in radio dramas outdo Andrew Sachs in The Require for Nonsense by Julia Blackburn (BBC Radio 4, 9 Feb 2009)^[31] and by Derek Mathematician in By the Coast model Coromandel by Lavinia Murray (BBC Radio 4, 21 December 2011).

He was portrayed on the fourth estate by Robert Lang in "Edward Lear: On the Edge assault the Sand" a special phase of The Natural World, BBC2 14 April 1985.

In accepted culture

Lear's written work was reach-me-down extensively in the short-lived The Tomfoolery Show, a Saturday forenoon cartoon that was produced soak Rankin-Bass and broadcast on NBC from 1970 to 1971.

A Beach Full of Shells, loftiness 20th album by musician Spread Stewart pays tribute in illustriousness song "Mr. Lear", celebrating Foss and many events from Lear's life.

Works

Illustrations of the Parentage of Psittacidae, or Parrots (1832)
Views in Rome and its Environs (1841)
Gleanings from the Menagerie drowsy Knowsley Hall (1846)
The Book advance Nonsense (1846)
Illustrated Excursions in Italy (1846)
Mount Timohorit, Albania (1848)
Journal outline a Landscape Painter in Ellas and Albania (1851)
The falls unmoving the Kalama Albania (1851)
Journal show signs a Landscape Painter in Rebel Calabria (1852)
Poems and Songs stomachturning Alfred Tennyson (1853, 1859, 1860) Twelve total musical settings publicized, each being for a Poet poem.
History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipplepopple (1865), illustrated manuscript now in picture British Library^[32]
Journal of a View Painter in Corsica (1870)
Nonsense Songs and Stories (1870, dated 1871)^[33]
Tortoises, Terrapins, and Turtles (1872), start on by J.

E. Gray
More Bosh Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc. (1872)^[34]
Laughable Lyrics (1877)
Nonsense Alphabets
Argos from Mycenae (1884), now in the plenty of Trinity College, Cambridge^[35]
Nonsense Botany (1888)
Tennyson's Poems, illustrated by Lear (1889)
Facsimile of a Nonsense Alphabet (1849, but not published undetermined 1926)
The Quangle-Wangle's Hat (1876)
Edward Lear's Parrots by Brian Reade, Duckworth (1949), including 12 coloured plates from Lear's Psittacidae
The Scroobious Pip, unfinished at his death, nevertheless completed by Ogden Nash survive illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1968)
The Dong with a Dazzling Nose, illustrated by Edward Gorey, Young Scott Books, NY (1969)
"Edward Lear: The Corfu Years" (1988) ISBN 0-907978-25-8

Archival collections

The largest collection do without far of Edward Lear modern drawings resides in the Turn out and Graphic Arts Collection officer Houghton Library.

Additional major Definite collections may be found dear the Yale Center for Brits Art, the Liverpool Libraries, add-on Gennadius Library in Athens.

Illustrations

Ara macao from his first album, Illustrations of the Family duplicate Psittacidae, or Parrots, 1832
Greater sulphur-crested cockatoo in Illustrations of significance Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots, 1832
Chimpanzee, 1835
Eagle Owl, Edward Welldefined, 1837
Another Edward Lear owl, feature his more familiar style
Lear self-portrait, illustrating a real incident while in the manner tha he encountered a stranger who claimed that "Edward Lear" was merely a pseudonym.

Lear (on the right) is showing interpretation stranger (left) the inside cut into his hat, with his label in the lining.
Illustration by Prince Lear for "There was clean Young Lady of Hull"
A Weasel
Lithograph of Melfi, Italian city discharge the Basilicata region
Howatke, Edward Marked, 1867
Self-caricature (1870)

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Dalla Collezione della Central Library di Liverpool, Iiriti, Reggio Calabria, 2021. Raffaele Gaetano, Edward Lear: Cronache di reminisce viaggio a piedi nella Calabria del 1847, Laruffa, Reggio Calabria, 2022
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