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Here is a typical Edward Lear caricature self-portrait I saved from an eBay auction a few months ago (starting price was GBP750.00 with an estimate of 1,500-2,000):

The speech bubble contains a message to Evelyn Baring, first Earl of Cromer (1841-1917): “9 A.M. will do beautifully but I would have made 6-7-or 8 do if H.E [...]

I have been looking for episodes from the Tomfoolery Show at least since 2002, when I heard of this show largely based on characters created by Edward Lear.

While no episode has turned up so far, Ron Kurer’s Toon Tracker at least provides a few pictures; according to the entry, Tomfoolery was

a series patterned after NBC’s [...]

Lear Productions, a division of RS Productions, is filming a three-part TV series on Edward Lear’s travels in Greece and Albania, writer and traveller Rob Horne will follow in the footsteps of Lear. The first programme is ready and the second should have been filmed in April-May. A gallery of images is available on the [...]

Archive.org has placed online the two early collections of Edward Lear’s letters:
Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances Countess Waldegrave. Edited by Lady Strachey. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907 (1909 edition).
Later letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue (Lord Carlingford), Frances, Countess Waldegrave, and others. Edited by Lady Strachey. London: T. [...]

Lesley of Birds Ahoy! has found these delicious biscuits:

The illustration of the package is also very beautiful:

The producer has a website, but at the moment no information is available.

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, December 1899, vol. C, No. DXCV, “Literary Notes” by John Kendrick Bangs, review of Peter Newell’s Pictures and Rhymes:
… Equally individual in the character of his work is Mr. Peter Newell, who has just published a collection of his quaintly illustrated nonsense verses under the title of Peter Newell’s Pictures and [...]

When, about two years ago, I posted about the illustrations to three of Edward Lear’s poems first published in Our Young Folks, I had to omit one of the illustrations for “The Owl and the Pussy-cat” for the simple reason that my collection of the magazine is missing the February 1870 issue in which it [...]

A new Edward Lear animation is available on YouTube, Edward Lear Poetic Stories, in Czech, I think, written and directed by Jana Šobáňová in 2005. That’s as much as I manage to gather. Listening to the sung text it would appear to consist of three limericks (though the third one seems to add some text); [...]