No 6. Palaiokastritza - Corfù

Lear Edward ( 1812 - 1888 ) Sanremo

Verlag: Artist: Lear Edward ( - 1888 ) Sanremo issued in: London; - Edward Lear ( 1812- 1888) was an English artist illustrator musician author and poet now known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks a form he popularised His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys which he reworked later sometimes as plates for his travel books; as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poems As an author he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems songs short stories botanical drawings recipes and alphabets He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tenny, 1812

Technic: Lithography, colorit: original colored, condition: Perfect condition, size (in cm): 26,5 x 36,5 cm cm; - View shows a bay at Paleokastritsa on the west coast of Corfu. From - Views in the Seven Ionian Islands, by Edward Lear- A Lithography,published in 1863 by the Artist, Oldham London, Hugh Broadbent (1863/1979). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers EUK4386_500

Bibliografische Details

Titel: No 6. Palaiokastritza - Corfù
Verlag: Artist: Lear Edward ( - 1888 ) Sanremo issued in: London; - Edward Lear ( 1812- 1888) was an English artist illustrator musician author and poet now known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks a form he popularised His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys which he reworked later sometimes as plates for his travel books; as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poems As an author he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems songs short stories botanical drawings recipes and alphabets He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tenny
Erscheinungsdatum: 1812