Edward Lear is best known for his poems ranging from nonsense verse to the Owl and the Pussycat but he was also an ornithological artist. One of his biggest fans, Sir David Attenborough, has ...

At 18 he published an album of lithographic prints of those parrots, images of such graceful design and anatomical accuracy that Edward Stanley, the 13th Earl of Derby, invited Lear to draw and ...

Bird prints were quite easy to find in second-hand bookshops 50 years ago. They represented birds of all kinds – domestic as well as tropical, small and soberly coloured as well as extravagantly ...

This exhibition, titled Edward Lear: Watercolours and Words, combines 21 Maltese works by this highly lyrical artist in a unique setting, side by side with Lear’s unpublished diary entries ...

Such is the captivating cover of The Viceroy’s Artist (Hachette India), a novel by academician and author Anindyo Roy. This fictionalised, inner-world narrative is one that explores the thoughts and ...

Robert McCracken Peck's "The Natural History of Edward Lear" is, in part, a concise biography of the great Victorian artist, traveler and nonsense poet, but more particularly a celebration of Lear ...

Robert McCracken Peck's The Natural History of Edward Lear is, in part, a concise biography of the great Victorian artist, traveller and nonsense poet, but more particularly a celebration of Lear ...

BEST known for his nonsense poems and limericks, Edward Lear considered himself first and foremost a painter. Now, as the bicentenary of his birth is about to be celebrated, two Oxford museums are ...

I had, of course, heard of the extraordinary artist couple John and Elizabeth Gould, who left behind 3,999 paintings, mostly of birds. But at that stage I did not fully understand their significance.