
“Water Shrews” painted by Edward Lear. A new blog by Robert McCracken Peck
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. Edward Lear (1812-1888) was born on 12th May 1812. He best remembered today for his humorous limericks and […]
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