{"id":14,"date":"2012-11-02T17:13:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T17:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:28:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T14:28:56","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Lear visited Greece in 1848"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his two-month tour to Athens, mainland Greece and the island of Euboea, Edward Lear made almost 150 landscape drawings and kept a diary of his experiences and impressions. Many years later, Lear&#8217;s travelling companion, <a title=\"Charles Church\" href=\"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=48\"><strong>Charles Church<\/strong><\/a>, wrote up his own reminiscences of their trip, incorporating parts of Lear&#8217;s diary.<\/p>\n<p>On these pages you can read the resultant <a title=\"The Journal\" href=\"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=39\"><strong>Journal<\/strong><\/a>, together with <a title=\"Church's Introduction\" href=\"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=2\"><strong>Church&#8217;s Introduction<\/strong><\/a>, and see some of Lear&#8217;s drawings and paintings of the places they visited.<\/p>\n<p>You will also find details of the method and organisation of Lear&#8217;s <a title=\"Lear's Pictures\" href=\"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>pictures<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A plan of their journey, together with <strong><a title=\"Maps\" href=\"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maps<\/a><\/strong> of the region are provided to help you get your bearings.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Further information\" href=\"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=48\"><strong>Further information<\/strong><\/a> about the project includes a description of the original typescript (now in the Westminster School Archive), biographical information about Charles Church, acknowledgements, links to other sites documenting Lear&#8217;s travels and suggestions for further reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his two-month tour to Athens, mainland Greece and the island of Euboea, Edward Lear made almost 150 landscape drawings and kept a diary of his experiences and impressions. Many years later, Lear&#8217;s travelling companion, Charles Church, wrote up his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardlear.westminster.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}