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random-brushstrokes · 5 months

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Edward Lear - Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, at Sunset (1865-1884)

#edward lear #british art #cityscape #venice

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lionofchaeronea · 3 months

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River Pass between Barren Rock Cliffs, Edward Lear, 1867

#art #art history #Edward Lear #landscape #landscape painting #landscape art #watercolor #gouache #British art #English art #19th century art #Victorian period #Victorian art #Yale Center for British Art

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a-book-of-creatures · 10 months

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

#cats #edward lear #foss #heraldry

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laclefdescoeurs · 7 months

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View of Janina, Edward Lear

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arthistoryanimalia · 10 months

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For #InternationalTigerDay 🐅 on #Caturday:

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

#animals in art #tiger #International Tiger Day #animal holiday #feline #Caturday #Edward Lear #Nonsense Botany #19th century art #British art #European art #book art #book illustration #illustration #line drawing #tigers

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tygerland · 5 months

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Edward Lear A Study of Ferns Civitella (Italy). Oil on green wove paper: 15 × 17 cm (6 × 7 in). October 1842.

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thestuffedalligator · 6 months

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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.

#edward lear #the jumblies #this is also why when i was tinkering with a dnd setting based on lear poems #jumblies were basically gnomes with parrot wings #because of this totally useless crackpot conspiracy theory

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rearte2 · 21 days

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by Edward Lear, 1832

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calabria-mediterranea · 2 months

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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