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Posts tagged 'Edward Lear'

Gould’s book of toucans

29 January 2019 by Rupert Baker

A couple of weeks ago, we hosted a series of tours from the Art Fund. A total of 90 people…

Ships of quartz, bolts of gold

28 August 2018 by Keith Moore

It wasn’t just Edward Lear’s Jumblies who went to sea in a sieve. Another madcap fictional mariner, Doctor Faustroll, took…

Charles Darwin, Edward Lear, and the Royal Society Library

31 August 2012 by Felicity Henderson

In the course of preparing for our new exhibition, ‘Edward Lear and the Scientists’, I came across an undated letter…

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