Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Before Little Nemo

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

“Wicked Willie’s Dream” by Walter M. Dunk appeared in Harper’s Round Table, vol. XVI, no. 821, 23 July 1895, 760 (click for full story): It clearly anticipates Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland, in particular for Willie’s position after his … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell, American Comic Illustrator

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

The blog has been quiet for a long time, as I have been very busy and had to keep up with the daily publication of Edward Lear’s diaries. However, I have at last found time to add an article on … Continue reading →

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New Edward Lear Resources

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

Just a quick post to mention a few new resources relating to Edward Lear: Never Mind the Pussycat: The Ornithological Art of Edward Lear, the companion site for a 2008 exhibition at the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University, … Continue reading →

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De kat en de uil

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

Below is a pen and ink calligraphic drawing by Jacob Labotz representing a cat and an owl. Online translator software is not very good with 18th-century Dutch, but it is obvious they are fighting for the possession of the mouse … Continue reading →

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An Exile in Paradise

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

You may remember that RS Productions started working on a documentary on Edward Lear’s travels in Greece and Albania almost two years ago, and I linked to a promo last year. The first of the three parts is now going … Continue reading →

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The Cowboysterous Kangaroosevelt Bear

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

Theodore Roosevelt‘s refusal, in 1902, to shoot an imprisoned bear spawned a long series of political cartoons and, since the bound animal was often represented as a cub, and brought to the creation of the Teddy Bear. Roosevelt’s hunting mania … Continue reading →

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Il libro esplosivo

Posted on December 12, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

My Italian translation of Peter Newell’s Rocket Book, Il libro esplosivo, has been out for some time now. The publisher, orecchio acerbo, have a beautiful book trailer on YouTube: While you are there, don’t miss the short for Stefano Benni’s … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear's Nervous Family

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library has scans of a few of their Edward Lear manuscripts online; the small collection includes self-caricatures taken from letters and original cartoons for the Nonsense Botanies, but also the full manuscript of … Continue reading →

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The Edward Lear Diaries Project

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear’s diaries have been used by all major biographers and extracts have been published in books about  particular locations, most notably by Philip Sherrard for Corfu and Rowena Fowler for Malta. Except for the Indian Journal, published by Ray … Continue reading →

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Irish Sources of Edward Lear's Early Picture Stories

Posted on September 14, 2008 by Marco Graziosi

In a previous post I quoted a passage from Prothero’s biography of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley reporting the event that might have originated Edward Lear’s picture story “St. Kiven and the Gentle Kathleen,” an illustrated version of Tom Moore’s “By that … Continue reading →

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