Edward Lear and Lake District

Edward Lear sketches is a exhibition which is currently on at Dove Cottage,Grasmere and looks well worth a visit. He was a gifted artist and deservs to be better known as a painter.

“really it is impossible to tell you how,& how enormously I have enjoyed the whole Autumn. the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland are superb in deed. & tho’ the weather has been misrerable,yet I have contrived to walk pretty well over the whole ground,& to sketch a good deal beside, I hope to I have improved somewhat”