Attributed to Edward Lear, British 1812-1888- River landscape with a distant coastal town and mountains, Palermo; pencil drawing, 10x15cm: together with two other landscapes, a watercolour and a pencil drawing with touches of watercolour, by other hands, 13.5x27cm and 15x28cm., (3) (part mounted, unframed). Note: Edward Lear, was a a poet, author, and artist. Lear is best known for writing poems, the most famous of these being the Owl and the Pussycat, and for developing the genre of literary nonsense, particularly in his 1846 volume of limericks fittingly entitled A Book of Nonsense. Lear repeatedly returned to the theme of the natural world in his art. This interest can be seen both in his more formal drawings of animals, and in the more fantastical (and often anthropomorphic) illustrations which he produced for his poems and stories. It is also evident in the number of landscapes which he made throughout his life, of which these pictures are classic examples. Please refer to department for condition report