Editing Edward Lear (section)

===San Remo and death===
Lear eventually settled in [[Sanremo|San Remo]], on his beloved Mediterranean coast in the 1870s at a villa he named "Villa Tennyson".

Lear was known to introduce himself with a long pseudonym: "Mr Abebika kratoponoko Prizzikalo Kattefello Ablegorabalus Ableborinto phashyph" or "Chakonoton the Cozovex Dossi Fossi Sini Tomentilla Coronilla Polentilla
Battledore & Shuttlecock Derry down Derry Dumps", which he based on ''[[Aldiborontiphoskyphorniostikos]]''.<ref name="Pendlebury">{{cite web|url=http://eprints.ru.ac.za/1292/1/ReadingNonsense.pdf|title=Reading Nonsense: A Journey through the writing of Edward Lear|last=Pendlebury|first=Kathleen Sarah|date=November 2007|work=A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the Requirements for the degree of MASTERS OF ARTS of RHODES UNIVERSITY|publisher=RHODES UNIVERSITY|pages=20–21|access-date=14 February 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718173749/http://eprints.ru.ac.za/1292/1/ReadingNonsense.pdf|archive-date=18 July 2011}}</ref>
[[File:Lear epitaph.jpg|thumb|Lear's grave in [[San Remo, Italy]], where he is buried alongside Giorgio Cocali, "A Christian Albanian of Suli", "He was for 39 years the faithful servant and friend of Edward Lear"]]
After a long decline in his health, Lear died at his villa in 1888 of [[heart disease]], which he had since at least 1870. Lear's funeral was described as a sad, lonely affair by the wife of Dr. Hassall, Lear's physician, none of Lear's many lifelong friends being able to attend.<ref>Strachie, Lady Constance Braham. ''Later Letters of Edward Lear: Author of "The Book of Nonsense"''. 1911: Duffield and Company. P. 332</ref>

Lear is buried in the Cemetery Foce in San Remo. On his headstone are inscribed these lines about Mount Tomohrit (in Albania) from Tennyson's poem ''To E.L. [Edward Lear], On His Travels in Greece'':
{{poemquote|
{{pad|5em}} — all things fair.
With such a pencil, such a pen.
You shadow'd forth to distant men,
I read and felt that I was there.<ref>{{cite ODNB|title=Lear, Edward (1812–1888)|id=16247|first=Vivien|last=Noakes}}</ref>}}

The centenary of his death was marked in Britain with a set of Royal Mail stamps in 1988 and an exhibition at the [[Royal Academy]]. Lear's birthplace area is now marked with a plaque at Bowman's Mews, Islington, in London, and his bicentenary during 2012 was celebrated with a variety of events, exhibitions and lectures in venues across the world including an International Owl and Pussycat Day on his birth anniversary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://teachingnonsenseinschools.wordpress.com |title=International Owl & Pussycat Day, 12 May &#124; Just another WordPress.com site |publisher=Teachingnonsenseinschools.wordpress.com |access-date=16 January 2012}}</ref>