Get wise to Edward Lear artworks at London dealer's exhibition

Before the poet Edward Lear sent the owl and the pussycat out to sea in a beautiful pea green boat in his 1867 poem, he combined them in this c.1846 watercolour.

It measures 5 x 3½in (13.5 x 9cm) and is inscribed Ye Owly Pusseycatte, a new Beast found in ye Is…

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