Edward Lear's illustrations: in pictures. As well as a gifted poet, Edward Lear was a prolific illustrator, who once tried to teach Queen Victoria to draw. By Daisy Bowie Sell 12 May 2012 • 7:00am .

Edward Lear and the Scientists, running at the Royal Society Library from 29 August to 26 September, will present some of Lear's gorgeous scientific illustrations of animals ranging from toucans ...

On the bicentennial of his birth, Edward Lear is celebrated for his whimsical poetry and his stunningly accurate scientific illustrations. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant ...

Edward Lear is the author of children’s verses such as The Owl and the Pussycat, The Yonghy Bonghy Bo and The Jamblies.But there was more to Lear than his much loved silly verses. He was a ...

Edward Lear (1812-1888) was eighteen when he started work on the illustrations for The Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots. As an ornithological draughtsman, with a talent for striking colors and ...

Edward Lear’s famous limericks often depend on the illustrations (such as the Man of Whitehaven, right) for their full effect. They also eschew the obscenity for which the form is so eminently ...

Lear's first published illustrations were two vignettes, of lemurs and macaws, in Edward Turner Bennett's The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated (1830–31).

The decade from 1827 to 1837 was, as Robert Peck writes in The Natural History of Edward Lear, “one of relative stability, working on the details of feathers, fur, and vertebrate anatomy,” but ...

In 15 active, imaginative and often-hilarious illustrations, Brooke Albrecht brings to life some of the nonsense verses of 19th-century English author Edward Lear.