Edward LearBritish, 1812–1888Gezicht op Palaiokastritsa
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Unknown
Where is “Gezicht op Palaiokastritsa” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- RP-P-2018-1843
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
In the life of Edward Lear
The whole life1846
“A Book of Nonsense” is published
In 1846 Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks that went through three editions and helped popularise the form and the genre of literary nonsense.
1848–1849
Albania, Macedonia, Egypt and Greece
In 1848–49 Lear visited Albania, Vardar Macedonia, Egypt (all then part of the Ottoman Empire) and Greece. On the way he produced large quantities of coloured wash drawings, which he later converted in his studio into oil and watercolour paintings and into prints for his books.
1849
Meets Franklin Lushington on Malta
In 1849 on Malta Lear met the young barrister Franklin Lushington and toured southern Greece with him. It was the most fervent and painful friendship of his life and lasted almost forty years, until Lear’s death; Lushington did not wholly reciprocate his feelings.
aged 49 (1861 – 1862)
The death of his sister Ann, who had been a mother to him
Ann, who had raised Edward and acted as a mother to him until her death, died when he was almost 50 years old.
1871
A collection of nonsense songs, stories and alphabets appears
In 1871 Lear published Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, which included the nonsense song “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat”, written for the children of his patron Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby.
29 January 1888
Died
![Sketches in Italy [recto], Edward Lear, 1839/1845](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/26015fdc-6fe9-4561-8bb4-134803419e77/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
