The Owl and the Pussycat
Author: Edward Lear
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Published: 2007-09
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1553378288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edward Lear's beloved poem has charmed readers since it was first published in 1871. 4+ yrs.
Author: Edward Lear
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Published: 2007-09
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1553378288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edward Lear's beloved poem has charmed readers since it was first published in 1871. 4+ yrs.
Author: Simon Beck
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-07-07
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 1471787907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edward Lear's classic poem, illustrated by Simon Beck. A family favourite with witty and memorable new illustrations.
Author: Robert McCracken Peck
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-04-13
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0691217238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Edward Lear is well known as the brilliant writer of nonsense poetry, children's books, and travel books who popularized the limerick, and wrote verses such as "The Owl and the Pussycat." But few people are aware that Lear was one of the most talented and accomplished painters of natural history subjects in the nineteenth century, and worked with British scientists, collectors, and publishers to make Britain the nexus for scientific investigation and its circulation. One of the best ornithological artists of his generation, Lear published his first book, a monograph on the parrot family, at age 18, and established a format that would be followed by decades by such publishers as John Gould, with whom he worked closely and often anonymously. Over his career, Lear produced a multitude of drawings of birds and mammals from around the world for scientific publications, public institutions, and individual patrons, not just of English species, but of birds and mammals from Australia, New Zealand, and the Americas. He is also the Lear in the name of the rare species Lear's Macaw. In this book, Peck has assembled the first comprehensive view of this important part of Lear's career. Featuring over 200 illustrations and a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, the book also examines the influence Lear had on modern artists such as Walton Ford and Tony Foster. This new edition includes a new chapter that addresses Lear's continued fascination with wildlife and the natural world after giving up his career as a scientific illustrator, and his fascination with domestic pets, from his own beloved cat which he cartooned repeatedly, to the portraits of dogs owned by his family and friends, alongside thirteen never-before-published illustrations, including fully finished watercolors, rough preliminary sketches, and whimsical cartoons"--
Author: Edward Lear
Publisher: NorthSouth (NY)
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781558584679
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated collection of twenty-four nonsensical poems by Edward Lear.
Author: Edward Lear
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 23
ISBN-13: 9780881621839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Edward Lear
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Published: 2023-07-10
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edward Lear began his career as an ornithological illustrator, becoming one of the first major artists to draw birds from living models. During this period he was employed to paint the birds from the private menagerie owned by Edward Stanley, the 13th Earl of Derby and one of Lear’s closest friends. In 1837, Lear’s health started to decline. His deteriorating eyesight and failing lungs forced him to abandon the detailed painting required for depicting birds, and, with the help of the earl, he moved to Rome where he established himself as a poet of literary nonsense. While Lear was visiting the Earl of Derby, he wrote poems and drew silly sketches to entertain the earl’s children. In 1846, he collected together his pile of limericks and illustrations and published his first poetical book, titled A Book of Nonsense and dedicated to the Earl of Derby and his children. He decided to publish under the pseudonym Derry down Derry, but after he started making plans for more books, he republished under his real name. His next book, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets wasn’t published until 24 years later, in 1870. Lear then released More Nonsense, which contains more limericks, in 1872, and Laughable Lyrics in 1877. This final book in the series contains many of Lear’s most famous fantastical creatures, such as the Quangle Wangle. The influence of Lear’s poetry in the twentieth-century can be seen in styles like the surrealism movement and the theater of the absurd.
Author: Edward Lear
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-05-28
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Book of Nonsense, first published in 1846, stands alone as the ultimate and most loved expression in English of freewheeling, benign, and unconstricted merriment. The poems of the book tell the stories of the owls, hen, larks, and their nests in his beard, and other fey fauna and peculiar persons. They all inhabit the uniquely inspired nonsense rhymes and drawings of Lear, who was a 20th child of a London stockbroker.
Author: Edward Lear
Publisher:
Published: 2008-04-01
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 9781741789362
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this beautifully illustrated edition of the beloved nonsense poem by Edward Lear, Anne Mortimer takes the reader on the delightful voyage of the Owl and the Pussycat as they sail across the sea and travel into lush jungles, all by the light of the moon. Filled with rich detail and breathtaking artwork by Anne Mortimer, this is a glowing tribute to the power of true love.
Author: Vivien Noakes
Publisher: Sutton Pub Limited
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780750937443
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The youngest but one of 21 children, Edward Lear had a constant struggle against ill-health, loneliness and depression throughout his life. This completely revised edition tell his story and includes new material on Lear's early life drawn from recently found letters.