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
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.)
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.
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.
Edward Lear, Pines in Strathfieldsaye Park.
Pencil heightened with white on grey paper. 23cm x 16.5cm.
Edward Lear, Lago d’Orta, 2nd June 1867.
Watercolour With Pencil, Pen And Brown Ink On Paper. 23cm x 45cm.
Inner Voices – Complete fan made animation.
Stewart Lee’s Pea-Green Boat will be (re-)published in September with illustrations by David Waywell.
I have added several new entries to the “Studies on Edward Lear” bibliography, among others:
Gordon Ginzburg, Etti. “Voracious Nonsense: The Cannibalistic Pleasures and Gluttonous Delights of Edward Lear’s and Laura Richards’s Nonsense Poetry.” Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature: National, International and Transnational Perspectives. Eds. Gasperini, Anna, Björn Sundmark and Laura Tosi. Malmö: Malmö University Press, 2024. 59-74. https://doi.org/10.24834/isbn.9789178775651_4
Hoffman, A. Robin. “The Perils and Pleasures of Pronunciation and Perspective in Edward Lear’s Nonsense Alphabets.” In Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye: British Approaches to Literacy through the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 88-111. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198938163.001.0001
Leonardi, Angela. “‘Travelling with the eyes open’. Il senso del non-luogo nel viaggio in Basilicata e Calabria di Edward Lear.” Scritture del Paesaggio e Memoria nei Luoghi. Eds. lo Feudo, Michela, Antonio Rollo and Erminia Surmonte. Napoli: Federico II University Press, 2025. 57-74. http://www.fedoabooks.unina.it/index.php/fedoapress/catalog/view/763/849/3897.
Wales, Katie. “Where Owls Nest in Beards: Making Sense of Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense.” Style as Motivated Choice: In Memory of Peter Verdonk (1934-2021). Eds. Burke, Michael and Joanna Gavins. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2025. 93-113. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.44?locatt=mode:legacy
Graziosi, Marco. “The Evolution of Edward Lear’s A Book of Nonsense: The Making of the 1846, 1855, and 1861 Editions.” Book History 28.2 (2025): 282-315. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2025.a976869.
Dilworth, Thomas. Edward Lear as a Victorian Modernist: The Illustrated Limericks. New York and London: Routledge, 2026. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003675020
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