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Edward Lear’s Limericks and Women’s Suffrage

Posted on June 8, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

The London Museum website has a number of postcards on women’s suffrage clearly derived from Edward Lear’s originals.

Thanks to the indefatigable limerick researcher Doug Harris.

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Kenneth Leighton, Laudes animantiun, op. 61, 2, Scherzo, Calico Pie

Posted on May 21, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

Leighton, Kenneth. “Scherzo ‘Calico Pie’.” Laudes animantium (Opus 61). 1971. Premiere: London, Purcell Room, June 12, 1973. Elizabethan Singers conducted by Herrick Bunney.
Now Published as no. 2 in Every Living Creature, Choral music by Kenneth Leighton. Londonum, dir. Andrew Griffiths. SOMM Recording, 2023.

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Edward Lear, Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling, India (1874)

Posted on May 16, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling, India.
Signed with monogram (lower left). Pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour on paper. 10 1⁄8 x 15 ½ in. (25.7 x 39.4 cm.) Executed in 1874.

Provenance
The Collection of Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, 2nd Baron Clermont and 1st Baron Carlingford
The Collection of Edward Strachey, 2nd Baron Strachie
Sotheby’s London, 11 November 1993, lot 165
Acquired from the above

Exhibited
London, Gooden and Fox Ltd., Edward Lear, 1968

See the oil version.

Christie’s.

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Edward Lear, Mount Sinai (1849)

Posted on May 13, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Mount Sinai, 1849.
Pencil, pen and brown ink on buff-coloured paper. Works on Paper. 11 ½ x 18 ½ in. (29.2 x 47 cm.)

MutualArt.

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Edward Lear Certosa del Pesio, San Bartolomeo (1870)

Posted on May 10, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Certosa del Pesio (San Bartolomeo).
Inscribed with title and dated ‘Augt.1870’ l.r., pencil, pen and brown ink. 31 x 48.5cm; framed 57 x 73cm.

Provenance
With The Fine Art Society.

The Saleroom.

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Edward Lear, Areka Palm in Hugh Nevill’s Garden, Ratnapoora (1874)

Posted on May 8, 2026 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Areka Palm in Hugh Nevill’s Garden, Ratnapoora.
Inscribed with title and dated ‘Novb 1894 [actually 1874] 4.30pm’ l.l., further inscribed l.r., pen and brown ink and wash. 44.5 x 24.5cm; framed 66 x 45cm.

The Saleroom.