Edward Lear

Edward Lear

May 13, 1812

He was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.

Illustrations of the Family of the Psittacidae, or Parrots

Dec 25, 1832

Book of Nonsense

Dec 25, 1846

friendship with Franklin Lushington

Period: Dec 25, 1849 to Dec 25, 1888

Journal of a Landscape Painter in Greece and Albania

Dec 25, 1851

Howatke

Dec 25, 1867

Settlement in Sanremo

Dec 25, 1870

Death

Jan 29, 1888

He died from a heart disease