Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Villa d’Este, Tivoli (1840)

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Cypresses at the Villa d’Este, Tivoli signed and dated ‘E. Lear 1840’ (lower left) and ‘E.LEAR.1841′ (lower right) and numbered ’10’ (lower left) oil on canvas, unlined 18 x 12¾ in. (45.7 x 32.4 cm.) Exhibited: London, Gooden … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Bocche di Cattaro

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Bocche di Cattaro (1866). Aberdeen Art Gallery. Jennifer Melville, Lead Curator of the Aberdeen Art Gallery, will be giving a lunchtime talk on this picture on 30 May 2012, see the Bicentenary Events board for more information. Meanwhile … Continue reading →

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Matt Black’s The Nonsense Olympics

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Next year, in case you didn’t notice, will be Edward Lear’s bicentenary as well as the year of the Olympics, so I was not surprised to find a square volume entitled The Nonsense Olympics. A Tribute to Edward Lear by … Continue reading →

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A Peter Newell Gag Cartoon

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Newell, Peter. [ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, SIGNED] Two-Panel Black Gag Cartoon. New York: 1892. Original pen and ink drawings.  One signed in ink, one in pencil.   Source unknown, but perhaps the illustrations were for one of the magazines that Newell drew for: … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear Memorial in Westminster Abbey

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Did you know there was a plaque in honour of Edward Lear in Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey? I did not, and just found out from several articles on the new Ted Hughes memorial, the one in the Guardian provides … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Philae on the Nile

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Philae on the Nile Signed with initials and dated ‘EL/1856’ (lower left) and inscribed ‘Edward Lear/July 1856’ (on a label attached to the reverse). Oil on canvas 13½ x 21¼ in. (34.5 x 61.6 cm.)

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Edward Lear, In the Campagna near Rome

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

In the Campagna, near Rome Indistinctly inscribed and dated ‘E Lear. Del. 1845’ (lower left) and inscribed ‘Edward Lear/1844’ (on a label attached to the reverse). Oil on canvas 11½ x 29 in. (29.2 x 73.7 cm.)

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Two Corfu Paintings by Edward Lear

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Corfu from the village of Ascension Corfu from the Benitza Road, on the hill of Gastouri Signed with monogram and dated ‘1862’ (one lower left and one lower right), one inscribed ‘Corfu from Ascension/Painted by me in Corfu, 1862./Edward Lear.’ … Continue reading →

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Something to Read

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

I do not have much time for posting at the moment, though I regularly update the list of events for the 2012 bicentenary. Here are a few interesting items on Edward Lear and nonsense in general: “Jumblies and Jabberwockies. The … Continue reading →

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Nonsense Pure and Simple

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

THE author of a suggestive and interesting paper in the current number of the Quarterly Review, entitled “Nonsense as a Fine Art,” [pdf download] discourses with considerable plausibility on the “infinite worth” of Sense’s antithesis. But in calling Nonsense “a … Continue reading →

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