Edward Lear
In 2020, to mark the 2500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, I put together Edward Lear’s
drawings and paintings of Thermopylae.
My edition of Edward Lear's Cretan Journal was first published in 1984; a revised third edition was published to coincide with the bicentenary of Lear’s birth, in 2012.
For 2012 I also curated a display of Lear’s scientific drawings at the Royal Society: Edward Lear and the Scientists: Text and Images from a Bicentenary Exhibition.
Together with Elizabeth Wells I have prepared a web edition of Edward Lear’s Grecian Travels: The Journal of a Tour in Attica and Euboea in 1848.
Also available online are my editions of:
Lear in Zakynthos, Ithaca and Cephalonia, 1848
Lear’s Greek journey of 1856: Corfu to Salonica
Lear’s travels in Greece and Albania in 1857
Lear in the Ionian Islands, 1863:
- Paxos
- Santa Maura (Lefkada)
- Cerigo (Kythera) (under construction).
When complete, these webpages will reconstruct as nearly as possible Lear's own projected “Topography of Greece”.