Monthly Archives: September 2018

Readings and Listenings

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

I missed this review of Jenny Uglow’s Mr Lear, you can read it here. Listen to three Edward Lear arrangements, in Hungarian Translatio, by György Kósa: The music comes from Kósa György: Home Concert – Songs and Chamber Works; Bokor Jutta, Judit … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Abetone (1883)

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Abetone. Inscribed Abetone/ 19. August/ 1883 3.15pm in pencil and in ink. Watercolour with pen and ink 9.2 x 16.5cm. Abetone lies 80km north west of Florence, in Tuscany. UKAuctioneers.com.

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Edward Lear, Alderly (1837)

Posted on September 20, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Alderly, 1837, figures walking in a park. Charcoal with white heightening on gray paper under Plexiglas. Signed lower left: Edward Lear, dated and titled lower right: June, 1837 . Sheet: 9.75″ H x 14″ W. Condition: Generally good condition. Framed floating … Continue reading →

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More to Read (in a few days)

Posted on September 18, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

This Book, Marie Duval, edited by Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin and Julian Waite, has been available for some time: it has been a bit of a disappointment as the critical apparatus is almost non-existent. However, this is the only way to … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Civitella di Subiaco

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Another picture from Edward Lear’s projected set of Tennyson illustrations which was also realized as a watercolour: “Morn broaden’d on the borders of the dark,” from Tennyson’s A Dream of Fair Women (from Ruth Pitman’s Edwawrd lear’s Tennyson, p. 101). A colour … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Pentedatelo

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

LEAR Edward,‘Pentedatelo’ (sic. Pentedattilo), Calabria. Ink and watercolour. Signed and inscribed. Lear’s Diary (30th July 1847) ‘ … the wild crags of Pentedatelo particularly arrested our attention…’ A sketch for the ill.opp.p.190, ‘Pentedatilo’, ‘Journals of a landscape painter in Southern … Continue reading →

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