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Edward Lear Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Edward Lear available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Mount Athos, drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Deir mar sabbas
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Edward Lear's Greece 1848-1868
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Bolton Art Gallery, UK
Brighton & Hove Museums, England
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
6 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
2 works online
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
National Library of Australia, Canberra
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
5 works online
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Edward Lear at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Huntington Library, California
Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Search results for "Edward Lear"
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Quite a few works online
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Edward Lear at The Art Renewal Center
Edward Lear at The Athenaeum 
6 works online
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Edward Lear at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Children's Literature Resources at Indiana University
Orientalist Art of the Nineteenth Century
The Cedars of Lebanon, 1862
Orientalist Art of the Nineteenth Century
The Pyramids Road, Gizah, 1873
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
The British Library, London, UK
The Victorian Web
UK Government Art Collection
Zorger Public Domain Images
Complete scans of 4 public domain works written and illustrated by Edward Lear
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Edward Lear 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
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