Edward Lear as a Landscape Draughtsman

by Philip Hofer

Edward Lear, while probably best known as the author of The Owl and the Pussycat and the famous Nonsense Books, was by profession a draughtsman and painter. For over fifty years after 1836, from the age of twenty-four, he spent much of his life traveling or in residence abroad, producing thousands of sketches and drawings, some of which he later elaborated or used as studies for paintings. He is now belatedly becoming recognized as one of the best...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674239504
• ISBN13: 9780674239500
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.