Edward Lear
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Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised but whi
Lear in 1866
Lear by Wilhelm Marstrand
Masada on the Dead Sea, Edward Lear, 1858
Temple of Venus and Roma, Rome
Foss (cat)
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Foss, formally named Aderphos, was the pet cat of Edward Lear, the 19th-century author, artist, illustrator and poet. A "stumpy-tailed", "portly" and "unattractive" tabby cat, he was a favourite of Le
Edward Lear
…Souliote chef, Giorgis, a faithful friend and (as Lear complained) a thoroughly unsatisfactory chef. Another trusted companion in San Remo was his cat, Foss, who died in 1887 and was buried with some ceremony in a garden at Villa Tennyson. Lear eventually settled in San Remo, on his beloved Mediterranean…
Foss illustrated by Lear
Foss and Lear depicted in an 1879 letter to Archdeacon William Bevan
Edward Lear Aged 73 and a Half and His Cat Foss, Aged 16 (1885)