{"id":24348,"date":"2024-10-24T18:23:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T17:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=24348"},"modified":"2024-10-25T06:05:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T05:05:35","slug":"art-edward-lear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=24348","title":{"rendered":"ART: Edward Lear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0429.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0429.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0429-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Some of Lear\u2019s natural history art.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever since I picked up a free copy of Edward Lear\u2019s <em>Nonsense Verse<\/em>, fairly recently, I\u2019ve been continually drawn back to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a surprise to me to learn just what a great artist he was, in terms, for example, of his natural history illustrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvardmagazine.com\/2012\/06\/owl-pussycat-and-superb-artistry\">this excellent piece<\/a> online today. Well worth a look! And I\u2019m keen to get a copy of this, if I can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"726\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0424-1-1-726x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24353\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0424-1-1-726x1024.jpg 726w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0424-1-1-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_0424-1-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Looks fantastic!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I picked up a free copy of Edward Lear\u2019s Nonsense Verse, fairly recently, I\u2019ve been continually drawn back to him. It was a surprise to me to learn just what a great artist he was, in terms, for example, of his natural history illustrations. I found this excellent piece online today. Well worth &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=24348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ART: Edward Lear&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6kI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24348"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24361,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24348\/revisions\/24361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}