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English artist and humorist. His Book of Nonsense (1846) popularized the limerick (a five-line humorous verse). His Nonsense Songs, Botany and Alphabets (1871), includes two of his best-known poems, ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ and ‘The Jumblies’.
He first attracted attention with his paintings of birds, and later turned to landscapes. He travelled to Italy, Greece, Egypt, and India, publishing books on his travels with his own illustrations, and spent most of his later life in Italy.
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