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Old Person of Ems

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Ground Cream

Ink Black

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130mm Rustic Handmade Glazed Ceramic Tile Plain white £17.99

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Size
130 × 130mm
Material
Glazed ceramic, handmade
Suitable for
Indoors only
Plain
The matching plain white
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Old Person of Ems

Design no. 224126

Edward Lear’s drawings for his own limericks, from Frederick Warne’s edition with all the original pictures and verses.

Design no.
224126
Department
Archival & Collage
Collection
Lear’s Book of Nonsense
Source
Edward Lear, The Book of Nonsense (London and New York, undated)
Style
Lear’s pen drawings, printed in line: quick outline, scribbled blacks
Subject
Figures, Sea life, Story scenes
Colour
Black on cream as standard
Form
Single tile
Mood
Playful
Symmetry
Asymmetric
Complexity
Complex

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Old Person of Ems