Edward Lear, Abetone, Monte Modina (1883)

Posted on January 26, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Abetone, Monte Modina.
August 1883

Also see:
Edward Lear, View of Mount Modino, near Abetone (1883)
Edward Lear, Abetone (1883)
Edward Lear, Abetone (1883)
Edward Lear, Monte Libro-Aperto (1883)

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Edward Lear, Sacro Monte in Switzerland (1879)

Posted on January 24, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Sacro Monte in Switzerland.
Pen and pencil with brown ink, inscribed and dated 1879 lower right, 34 x 50.5cm.

Provenance
Spink Gallery, Kings Street, St James’, London

The Saleroom.

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Edward Lear, Lavello from Minervino Murge, Sunrise (1847)

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Lavello from Minervino Murge, Sunrise.
Watercolour over traces of pencil heightened with touches of white on buff paper
inscribed ‘from Minervino/Sept 24 1847’ (lower left),Sunrise and extensively inscribed  with notes. 10 x 29 cm. (4 x 11 1/2 in.)

Provenance
Private Colletion, London

Invaluable.

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Edward Lear, Philae from Biggeh Sunset (1854)

Posted on January 20, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Philae from Biggeh Sunset.
Extensively inscribed with artist pallet references throughout, further titled and dated  ‘Philae from Biggeh, sunset, Feb.3.1854, p. 18’ (lower right). Watercolour. 32 x 50 cm. (12 5/8 x 19 3/4 in.)

Provenance
With Appleby Bros, Trafalgar Square, London, no. 2139, according to label attached verso,
Private Collection, UK

Invaluable.

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Edward Lear, Santa Maura (1863)

Posted on January 18, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Santa Maura.
Inscribed, titled and dated ’20th April 1863′. Watercolour over pen and ink. 15 x 25 cm. (6 x 10 in.)

Provenance
With John Spink, London

Invaluable.

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Edward Lear, Trees at Tivoli

Posted on January 16, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear (British, 1812-1888) Trees at Tivoli.
Pencil and stump work on buff paper. 24 x 35 cm. (9 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.)

Provenance
Private Collection, London

Invaluable.

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Edward Lear, Simplon (1837)

Posted on January 12, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear (British, 1812-1888) The Village of Simpion, Switzerland.
Inscribed ‘…mplon/ Sept. 1837’ and inscribed ‘H’ (lower right). Pencil, heightened white on grey paper. 32.4 x 22.6 cm. (12 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.)

Provenance
With Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Ltd, Duke Street, London, according to label attached verso.

Invaluable.

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Edward Lear, Ponte Nomentano near Rome (1844)

Posted on January 10, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Ponte Nomentano near Rome, May 17th 1844.
Pen and brown ink, signed and dated May 17th 1844 in pencil lower right, titled in pencil lower left, 15.5 x 25cm.

Provenance
Michael Spratt Gallery, Guildford, Surrey

The Saleroom.

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Edward Lear, Villa Castellane, Varese (1884)

Posted on January 8, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Villa Castellane, Varese.
Watercolour on paper – 26 x 51.5cm, 42.5 x 68cm framed. Monogrammed and dated 1884 lower right, titled lower left. With Peter Nahum label verso, with Peter Nahum receipt.

The Saleroom.

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There Was an Old Man of Berlin…

Posted on January 4, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

A few weeks ago Mr Nicholas Grindell contacted me about a chapbook he had published a few years back. It consists of a series of 108 limericks all beginning “There was an Old Man of Berlin” and is intended a tribute both to Edward Lear and the city Mr Grindell has been living in for over thirty years.

Unsurprisingly the title of the book is There Was an Old Man of Berlin and can be purchased from this page.

In the same e-mail Mr Grindell mentions something I had not noticed before: Lear’s own Man of Berlin

anticipates a scene from Wilhelm Busch’s Max und Moritz (1865), in which the two rascals end up in an oven, though this is not (yet) fatal to them:

The second picture in Busch’s story corresponds to the fate of Lear’s Old Man of Peru:

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