Edward Lear

**Edward Lear** (Holloway, Middlesex, 1812ko maiatzaren 12a - Sanremo, 1888ko urtarrilaren 29a) ingeles artista, ilustratzaile, musikari, egile eta olerkaria izan zen. Artista bezala, nagusiki, bere hegaztien marrazkiengatik, bidaietako ilustrazioengatik eta Alfred Tennysonen olerkietako bere ilustrazioengatik ezagutzen da. Egile gisa, zentzurik gabeko literaturagatik oroitzen da. Grezia, Egipto, India eta Zeilanetik bidaiatu zuen. 1842tik 1846ra Italiako monumentuak ilustratu zituen.

Limerick ezagun egin zuen.
thumb|There was a Young Person of Smyrna

There was a Young Person of Smyrna
Whose grandmother threatened to burn her.
: But she seized on the cat,
: and said 'Granny, burn that!
You incongruous old woman of Smyrna!'

## Lanak 
* *Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots* (1832)
* *Views in Rome and its Environs* (1841)
* *Gleanings from the Menagerie at Knowsley Hall* (1846)
* *Book of Nonsense* (1846)
* *Illustrated Excursions in Italy* (1846)
* *Mount Timohorit, Albania* (1848)
* *Journal of a Landscape Painter in Greece and Albania* (1851)
* *The falls of the Kalama Albania (1851)
* *Journal of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria* (1852)
* *Poems and Songs by Alfred Tennyson* (1853, 1859, 1860) Twelve total musical settings published, each being for a Tennyson poem.
* *Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica* (1870)
* *Nonsense Songs and Stories* (1870, dated 1871)
* *Tortoises, Terrapins, and Turtles* (1872), introduction by J.E. Gray
* *More Nonsense Songs, Pictures, etc.* (1872)
* *Laughable Lyrics* (1877)
* *Nonsense Alphabets*
* *Argos from Mycenae* (1884), now in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge
* *Nonsense Botany* (1888)
* *Tennyson's Poems, illustrated by Lear* (1889)
* *Facsimile of a Nonsense Alphabet* (1849, but not published until 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, but completed by Ogden Nash and illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1968)
* *The Dong with a Luminous Nose*, illustrated by Edward Gorey, Young Scott Books, NY (1969)
* "Edward Lear: The Corfu Years" (1988) 
* The 1970 Saturday morning cartoon *Tomfoolery*, based on the works of Lear and Lewis Carroll

## Iruditegia 

Edward Lear drawing.jpg|Lear by Wilhelm Marstrand
Masada (or Sebbeh) on the Dead Sea, Edward Lear, 1858.jpg|thumb|left|*Masada, Itsaso Hilan*, Edward Lear, 1858
Edward Lear - Temple of Venus and Rome, Rome - Google Art Project.jpg|Temple of Venus and Roma, Erroma
Castello di Celano 02.jpg|thumb|Celano
Lear epitaph.jpg|thumb|Learren hilobia San Remon
Edward Lear sketches dated 15 May 1864, from Paddy Leigh Fermor collection.jpg|Edward Lear sketches dated 15 May 1864, from Paddy Leigh Fermor's collection.]]
Howatke by Edward Lear 1867.jpg|*Howatke*, 1867
The falls of the Kalama Albania 1851 by Edward Lear 1812-1888.jpg|thumb|*The falls of the Kalama, Albania*, 1851
1862ca-a-book-of-nonsense--edward-lear-001.jpg|thumb|*A Book of Nonsense* (c. 1875 James Miller edition) by Edward Lear
Ara macao -painting by Edward Lear.jpg|Ara macao from his first book, 1830
Houghton MS Typ 55.12 - Edward Lear, chimpanzee head.jpg|Chimpanzee, 1835
eagleowl.jpg|*Eagle Owl*, Edward Lear, 1837
owlpussycat.jpg|Another Edward Lear owl, in his more familiar style
EdwardLearSelfPortrait.jpg|Lear self-portrait, illustrating a real incident when he encountered a stranger who claimed that "Edward Lear" was merely a pseudonym. Lear (on the right) is showing the stranger (left) the inside of his hat, with his name in the lining.
Edward Lear A Book of Nonsense 73.jpg|Illustration by Edward Lear for There was a Young Lady of Hull
Edward Lear - A Weasel - Google Art Project.jpg|*A Weasel*
Melfi - Edward Lear.jpg|Lithograph of Melfi, Italian city in the Basilicata region
Edward Lear self-caricature.jpg|Self-caricature (1870)

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