{"id":6913,"date":"2026-05-12T00:09:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/edward-lear\/---19b1895a-27bc-42db-b0ed-346f7b4d56d7"},"modified":"2026-05-12T00:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T00:09:44","slug":"edward-lear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2026\/05\/12\/edward-lear\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Lear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Edward Lear, the English painter and graphic artist, was born in London. In 1848, he came to Albania and visited Tirana, Kruja, Shkodra, Kavaja, Berat, Himara, Vlora, Tepelena, and Gjirokastra. He created several color lithographs of these places, measuring 17&#215;10 cm, which he published in the book &#8220;Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania,&#8221; London, 1851. In 1852, he also published the book &#8220;Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria,&#8221; which includes lithographs of Arb&euml;resh villages. Edward Lear&#8217;s lithographs of Albania are distinguished for their realism and artistic value. They mainly feature scenes from the country&#8217;s nature and characteristic buildings, such as castles. Some of them also serve as historical evidence of the views these places had in the 19th century. Edward Lear also created oil paintings. Two of the most famous ones are &#8220;Mount Tomorri&#8221; and &#8220;The Coast of Albania.&#8221; &nbsp;<em>(In the photo: Edward Lear)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Text:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\"> <em>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 2 <\/em>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2008, page 1528.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Photograph: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">&copy; https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Edward-Lear<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Graphic processing: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">AHCF<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Lear, the English painter and graphic artist, was born in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Edward Lear - Albanian Heritage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edward Lear - Albanian Heritage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Edward Lear, the English painter and graphic artist, was born in London.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Albanian Heritage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-12T00:09:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1728911767357.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1390\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"herit_admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"herit_admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/13\\\/eduart-lir\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/13\\\/eduart-lir\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"herit_admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/745b8092afe1e293d16fe1dd87afd505\"},\"headline\":\"Edward Lear\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-12T00:09:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/13\\\/eduart-lir\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":176,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/13\\\/eduart-lir\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/10\\\/1728911767357.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"DITELINDJE\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/13\\\/eduart-lir\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/13\\\/eduart-lir\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/13\\\/eduart-lir\\\/\",\"name\":\"Edward Lear - Albanian Heritage\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/13\\\/eduart-lir\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/13\\\/eduart-lir\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/10\\\/1728911767357.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-12T00:09:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/745b8092afe1e293d16fe1dd87afd505\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/13\\\/eduart-lir\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/13\\\/eduart-lir\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/13\\\/eduart-lir\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/10\\\/1728911767357.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/10\\\/1728911767357.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":1390},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/13\\\/eduart-lir\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Edward Lear\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/\",\"name\":\"Albanian Heritage\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/745b8092afe1e293d16fe1dd87afd505\",\"name\":\"herit_admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f95ea8de81f2e2342ce4e50061946208dfffb71f9c65231d43b9a55fab3cae6c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f95ea8de81f2e2342ce4e50061946208dfffb71f9c65231d43b9a55fab3cae6c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/f95ea8de81f2e2342ce4e50061946208dfffb71f9c65231d43b9a55fab3cae6c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"herit_admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.albanianheritage.al\\\/en\\\/author\\\/herit_admin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Edward Lear - Albanian Heritage","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Edward Lear - Albanian Heritage","og_description":"Edward Lear, the English painter and graphic artist, was born in London.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/","og_site_name":"Albanian Heritage","article_published_time":"2026-05-12T00:09:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":1390,"url":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1728911767357.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"herit_admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"herit_admin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/"},"author":{"name":"herit_admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/#\/schema\/person\/745b8092afe1e293d16fe1dd87afd505"},"headline":"Edward Lear","datePublished":"2026-05-12T00:09:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/"},"wordCount":176,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1728911767357.jpg","articleSection":["DITELINDJE"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/","url":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/","name":"Edward Lear - Albanian Heritage","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1728911767357.jpg","datePublished":"2026-05-12T00:09:44+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/#\/schema\/person\/745b8092afe1e293d16fe1dd87afd505"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1728911767357.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1728911767357.jpg","width":1024,"height":1390},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/13\/eduart-lir\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Edward Lear"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/","name":"Albanian Heritage","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/#\/schema\/person\/745b8092afe1e293d16fe1dd87afd505","name":"herit_admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f95ea8de81f2e2342ce4e50061946208dfffb71f9c65231d43b9a55fab3cae6c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f95ea8de81f2e2342ce4e50061946208dfffb71f9c65231d43b9a55fab3cae6c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f95ea8de81f2e2342ce4e50061946208dfffb71f9c65231d43b9a55fab3cae6c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"herit_admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al"],"url":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/author\/herit_admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9595,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions\/9595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}