Happy Birthday, Edward Lear: 200 Years of Nature and Nonsense – in pictures

Agia Triada, Akrotiri, 1864. Inscribed in Greek and dated 22 April 8am, 1864. Photograph: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Beachy Head, 1862. Photograph: Ashmolean Museum Photo Studio/Private Collection

Exact likeness of me and my cat, 1884. Photograph: Private Collection, The Walthall Family

Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber), from volume IV of John Gould, Birds of Europe, 1832-37 Photograph: Private Collection

Jerusalem, 1865 Photograph: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Limerick on the publication of Lear's Views in the Seven Ionian Islands, 1863 Photograph: Private Collection

Monastery of Konstamonitou, 1856 Photograph: Todd-White Art Photography/Private Collection (courtesy of Agnews)

Orange-winged Lorikeet (Trichoglossus pyrrhopterus), c1835 Photograph: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Study of Two Feathers, c1830-32 Photograph: Private Collection

Macrocercus Aracanga or Red and Yellow Macaw from Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots, 1830-32 Photograph: Alexander Library of Ornithology, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

The Plains of Lombardy from Monte Generoso, 1880 Photograph: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Trichinopoly, 1874 Photograph: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford