Were you a tome?
Matthew Bevis: Edward Lear, 14 December 2017
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
by Jenny Uglow.
Faber, 608 pp., £25, October 2017,978 0 571 26954 9 Show More
by Jenny Uglow.
Faber, 608 pp., £25, October 2017,
“... publication, he was nominated for election as an associate of the Linnean Society. According to David Attenborough, Lear is ‘the finest bird artist there ever was’. His drawings were primarily intended to help scientists identify species, yet his birds are exhibitionists as well as exhibits, always more than an instance that confirms a rule. The same ... ”