TWO centuries on, children continue to be inspired by the poetry of Edward Lear.

Anna Shearn, three, made the piggy from The Owl and the Pussycat at a half-term workshop at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum.

The museum, in Beaumont Street, has the UK’s largest Lear collection and is hosting an exhibition of his work until January 6 to mark the 200th anniversary of the storyteller’s birth.

It includes landscape sketches and the nonsense drawings and verses for which Lear is so well-known.