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 ...

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.

We tour a display of the scientific illustrations of nonsense poet Edward Lear.

Edward Lear: not just a pretty poet When the newly founded Zoological Society of London needed a painter to depict rare birds, they called on the future poet Edward Lear, says David Attenborough ...

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 ...

Poem of the Day: ‘The Pobble Who Has No Toes’ Edward Lear must surely count as one of the most interesting and peculiar figures to live in the Victorian age — and that’s saying something, for the ...

Edward Lear is the other great master of Victorian nonsense. Admittedly, Lear (1812-1888) lacks the universal appeal of his contemporary Lewis Carroll, but his longer poems — such as “The ...

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 ...

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).

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.