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British artist and writer (–)

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Born	()12 May Holloway, Middlesex, England
Died	29 January () (aged&#;75) Sanremo, Liguria, Italy
Occupation	Artist, illustrator, writer, poet
Citizenship	British, Italian
Period	19th century
Genre	Children's literature, literary nonsense and limericks
Notable works	The Book of Nonsense, "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"

Edward Lear (12 May ^[1][2] – 29 January ) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.^[3]

His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals, making coloured drawings during his journeys (which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books) and as a minor illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems.

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