Edward Lear - Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, at Sunset (1865-1884)
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River Pass between Barren Rock Cliffs, Edward Lear, 1867
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View of Janina, Edward Lear
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Edward Lear A Study of Ferns Civitella (Italy). Oil on green wove paper: 15 × 17 cm (6 × 7 in). October 1842.
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For #InternationalTigerDay 🐅 on #Caturday:
“Tigerlillia Terribilis” from Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany (1871–77)
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Here is a totally unprompted, baseless, and useless crackpot theory.
In the poems The Jumblies and The Dong with the Luminous Nose by Edward Lear, Lear describes the Jumblies as having “sky-blue hands and sea-green hair,” and most artists — including Lear himself — would draw them as little humanoid gremlin creatures.
I think he was describing blue and gold macaws.
Blue and gold macaws have blue wings and a prominent green crest on their heads. “Their heads are green, their hands are blue, and they went to sea in a sieve.”
And here’s another fact: Edward Lear was famous for painting parrots. He published an entire book of parrots painted by studying live examples at the London Zoo and from private collections, including the blue and gold macaw.
Which means he definitely studied them in person before he wrote the poem.
Does any of this mean anything? Absolutely not, but you should read some of Edward Lear’s nonsense poetry because he was writing his own private poetic universe and characters and concepts he would describe in one poem would be expanded in others. The Dong is connected to the Jumblies and the Quangle Wangle Quee, which in turn connects him to the Pobble Who Has No Toes, and his name is the Dong.
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Reggio Calabria (Calabria, Italy) in a 19th century painting by Henry Jaeckel.
"Reggio is indeed one vast garden, and doubtless one of the loveliest spots to be seen on earth. A half-ruined castle, beautiful in colour and picturesque in form, overlooks all the long city, the wide straits, and snow-topped Etna volcano on the island of Sicily beyond."
- Edward Lear, Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, 1852
Henry Jaeckel, Aragonese Castle of Reggio Calabria with view of the Mount Aetna and Sicily, 1853
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Fruit trees (1863) by Edward Lear (1812–1888).
Watercolour with pen in brown ink over graphite.
Yale Center for British Art
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any shrews?
Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927)
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Taormina and Mount Etna, Edward Lear, 1882
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Jerusalem, 1858, Edward Lear
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There was an Old Man with a beard
Who said, "It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren
Have all built their nests in my beard."
- Edward Lear, limerick and drawing, 1846.
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English artist and author Edward Lear was born #OTD (12 May 1812 - 29 Jan 1888). His gorgeous parrot paintings are exceptional not just for their scientific accuracy and vivid color, but for their infusion of individual personality, a result of him making a point of sketching living birds whenever possible, such as with this Scarlet Macaw (Ara Macao):
Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots; "Macrocercus Aracanga (Red and Yellow Macaw)" 1832 [now Ara macao = Scarlet Macaw]
Bruce Boehrer's excellent book Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird (2010) discusses this image and Lear’s unique style: “The whimsy that distinguished him as a writer…is already evident in these illustrations, and it speaks to the whimsical quality of the birds themselves. Lear and parrots were made for each other.” (p.93)
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