Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Tivoli (1838)

Posted on May 25, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Tivoli. Pencil and monochrome wash. Inscribed and dated ‘Tivoli May 7th 1838’. Provenance The Acland family. Exhibited: Fry Gallery. 7×9.75 inches. Abbott and Holder.

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Edward Lear, Parnassus (1849)

Posted on May 23, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Parnassus. Pen, ink, pencil and wash – “Parnassus, 12 April 1849, 11 A.M.” Mount Parnassus from Near Thebes – a study of an extensive landscape, with figures, some on horseback, inscribed, dated and numbered 159, 11.25ins x 19ins, … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Falla, near Strongili, Corfu (1862)

Posted on May 20, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Falla, near Strongili, Corfu. Inscribed lower left with the title in Greek and dated 4th May 1862 and numbered lower right: 49+2. Pen and brown ink over pencil on blue paper 21.5 by 44.5 cm., 8 ½ by … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Cheddar Cliffs, Somerset (1849)

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Cheddar Cliffs, Somerset. Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Tcheddacliphs [sic] / Edward Lear. del. Aug. 25.1849.’ (lower right). Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with white on buff paper 6 7/8 x 11 3/8 in. (17.5 x … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Ancient Gate of Alatri

Posted on May 14, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear’s lithograph of the Ancient Gate of Alatri from Views in Rome and Its Environs. In a coloured version, under Lear’s supervision? I’m finding more and more of these lithographs in colour, so perhaps the book was sold in different … Continue reading →

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A Batch of Irish Learics

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

In a previous post, like this one inspired by Doug Harris, I showed a page of “Irish Literary Learics” from   Idyls of Killowen: A Soggarth’s Secular Verses (London: James Bowden, 1899), by Matthew Russell, S.J. The same limericks, however had already … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear: A Commemorative Medal

Posted on May 10, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

British / French Commemorative Medal, bronze d.80mm: Edward Lear 1812-1888 Père du Non-Sens (medal) by Ronald Searle – famous satirist and illustrator, from his series The Fathers of Caricatures, 1970s, struck by the Monnaie de Paris (Paris Mint). A heavy … Continue reading →

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A Hierarchy of Nonsense, By John Kropf

Posted on May 8, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

[I receive from John Kropf, and publish.] For a couple of semesters in college I worked at the on-campus student coffee house, The Bandersnatch, named after the creature in Lewis Carroll’s famous nonsensical poem, Jabberwocky. When you work inside a … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, One Willow over the river hung

Posted on May 6, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Tennyson (Alfred, Lord).- Lear (Edward) “One willow over the river hung… River Anio, Campagna di Roma”, lithograph on fine wove paper, image 165 x 255 mm (6 1/2 x 10 in), sheet 280 x 335 mm (11 x 13 1/4 … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Calabria Journal edited by Raffaele Gaetano

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Raffaele Gaetano has published a new edition of Giuseppe Isnardi’s historic translation of  Edward Lear’s Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, & c. The book contains a long introduction by Gaetano and is richly illustrated with photographs showing … Continue reading →

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