#edward lear

[lionofchaeronea]

River Pass between Barren Rock Cliffs, Edward Lear, 1867

[a-book-of-creatures]

The heraldic cat reminded me of Edward Lear’s drawings of his cat Foss

[laclefdescoeurs]

View of Janina, Edward Lear

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #InternationalTigerDay 🐅 on #Caturday:

“Tigerlillia Terribilis” from Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany (1871–77)

[picturebookshelf]

The Jumblies

(Original Edition: 1968 -- This Edition: 1986) Story: Edward Lear -- Art: Owen Wood

[thestuffedalligator]

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.

[rearte2]

by Edward Lear, 1832

[dumbbitchhour]

Edward Lear, A View of Kythera, Greece, 1863 x

[calabria-mediterranea]

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

[lindahall]

Edward Lear – Scientist of the Day

Edward Lear, an English nature artist and poet, was born May 12, 1812.

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[lionofchaeronea]

Taormina and Mount Etna, Edward Lear, 1882

[elyaqim]

A clothed Duck wearing a hat and smoking a cigar, 1889.

☞ Illustration by William Foster for “The Duck and the Kangaroo,” Nonsense Drolleries, by Edward Lear, 1889. (In the public domain.)

Downloaded from the Internet Archive.

[laclefdescoeurs]

Jerusalem, 1858, Edward Lear

[arthistoryanimalia]

Edward Lear was born #OTD (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888). #BookRecommendations:

The Natural History of Edward Lear, New Edition (2021)

The Parrots: Die Papagein - Les Perroquets: 1830-1832 - Edward Lear: The Complete Plates (2018)

Edward Lear's Nonsense Birds (2013)

[byneddiedingo]

The Letter C of the Alphabet

Edward Lear, 1880

[itsmemeghu]

Post-man

Seeing a man walk into a post

I burst out laughing unlike the most

Who looked at me perplexed

While I became vexed

And walked right into that same old post.

Silly little limerick because lately I've been obsessed with 'The Nonsense Poems of Edward Lear'