My project’s objective to answer this question was to make an estimate of the number of original dated landscape drawings (as opposed to worked up watercolours) which Lear undertook in a career of over fifty years. No reliable estimate has previously been made of Lear’s work output as a topographical artist. Hope Mayo of the … Continue reading »

The purpose of this document is to give as complete a record as possible of Edward Lear’s works which are in public collections around the world and also those in institutions where researchers should be able to access them with permission. There are around 5000 such landscape drawings and many more finished watercolours and oil … Continue reading »