Karen Taylor has always had Edward Lear paintings and drawings in her catalogue and has now published one entirely devoted to him: Poetical Topography: Travels with Edward Lear, which covers his whole career.

It includes the full text of “Lays of the Octopods (The Last of the Octopods)” in case you missed my previous post on it or could not get to the issue of Notes & Queries and, of course many beautiful pictures.

Karen has also produced a nice catalogue about British Women Artists 1750-1950.

Guy Peppiatt also never disappoints, his latest catalogue, British Drawings and Watercolours 2024, includes several pictures by Edward Lear. In this case I found two very early pictures of flowers and butterflies for Miss Frase particularly interesting.