The Mainland: The Peloponnese and Central and Northern Greece
- June–July 1848: Athens, the mainland and the island of Euboea
- September 1848: Macedonia
- March–April 1849: The Peloponnese, Attica and Central Greece
- April–May 1849: Epirus and Thessaly
- August–October 1856: Mainland Greece and Mount Athos
Part One: From Corfu to Salonica
Part Two: From Salonica to Athos - April 1857: Epirus: Ioannina and the Zagoria villages
Ioannina, oil on canvas. Private Collection.
September 1848: Macedonia
This was part of a longer journey (numbered series 1–218) which continued to present-day North Macedonia and Albania. Numbers 4–23 are within the present-day borders of Greece and include Salonica, Yenidje [Giannitsa], Vodhena [Edessa] and Ostrovo [Arnissa].
From the sketches made on this journey and his 1849 journey to Epirus and Thessaly, Lear published Journals of a Landscape Painter in Greece and Albania, & c. (London: Richard Bentley, 1851).
Some excerpts from his journals and letters were published in Edward Lear in the Levant: Travels in Albania, Greece and Turkey in Europe, 1848–1849. Edited by Susan Hyman. (London: John Murray, 1988).
"A land of streams", Vodghenà [Edessa], pen and ink illustration for Tennyson's poem "The Lotos-Eaters". Houghton Library.
March–April 1849: The Peloponnese, Attica and Central Greece
Numbered series: 1–205. See “Edward Lear in the Peloponnese”, website by Stephen Duckworth (under construction).
Egina, 5 April 1849. Benaki Museum.
Levadhia, 13 April 1849 (detail).
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
April–May 1849: Epirus and Thessaly
Numbered series 1–83.
Patras–Corfu–Preveza (Nicopolis)–Arta–Suli–Parga –Ioannina–Metsovo–Meteora–Larissa–Tempe– Larissa–Tempe–Ioannina–Patras.
Storks, Larissa, 1849. Houghton Library.