“Water Shrews” painted by Edward Lear
by Robert McCraken Peck, Curator of Art and Artifacts and Senior Fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19103. “Water shrews” by Edward Lear (1812–1888). Courtesy of Guy Peppiatt. Although Edward Lear (1812–1888) is best remembered today for his humorous limericks and nonsense poetry, he made his […]
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