Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Convolvulus Seasideiensis

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Convolvulus Seasideiensis. “This delicate Animal has been see in great Abundance this Autumn all round the Coast. It flourishes best in exposed situations, and during [Inclement], windy Weather. 19th Century School in the Manner of Edward Lear (1812-1888) – Ink … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear Gezhir Eddomarieh (1854)

Posted on February 25, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, A view on the Nile. Indistinctly inscribed and dated G*zkir Eddomarie* [Gezhir Eddomarih] 25 Jan 1854 . ½PM (lower left) and numbered 129 (lower right). Watercolour. 6.5 x 14.9cm; 2½ x 5¾in Provenance Private Collection, Wiltshire The Saleroom.

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Edward Lear, Villa Adriana (1842)

Posted on February 22, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Villa Adriana. Signed and dated ‘Edward Lear del 1842’ (lower right), titled (lower left). Pencil and black  chalk heightened with white. 24.1 x 36.9cm (9 1/2 x 14 1/2in). Provenance Anon. sale, Phillips, London, 11 November 1997, lot … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Sigæum (1856)

Posted on February 19, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Sigæum (30 September 1856, sunrise). Pencil and watercolour. Signed and inscribed (lower left). 16 x 52cm (6¼ x 20¼ in.) Sigeion or Sigæum (Latin) was an important site in the Troas (North-West Asia Minor, modern Turkey) at the … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Topography of Greece

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Rowena Fowler has recently updated her website with an important addition to the Edward Lear section about his “Topography of Greece,” a project Lear never completed, which joins the several pages devoted to his travels and works, as well as … Continue reading →

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Aubrey Beardsley’s Limerick on Illustrating Le Morte Darthur

Posted on January 24, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

This manuscript records memories of Aubrey Beardsley’s mother about amateur theatricals put on at home by the adolescent Aubrey and his sister, Mabel, and her  son’s reluctance to fulfil his commission to illustrate an edition of Le Morte Darthur (1893–1894). … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Two Views of Venice from the Bacino (1865)

Posted on January 17, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Two views of Venice from the Bacinot. The first signed with monogram (lower right); the second inscribed and dated ‘Venice. 27. Novr 1865’ (lower left) and further inscribed and numbered ‘27.Novr. (66)’ (lower right) and further inscribed with … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear: Moment to Moment review in the Burlington Magazine

Posted on January 15, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

The Burlington Magazine, volume 164, number 1436, November 2022, pp. 1130-1132 contains a review of the Ikon exhibition by Richard Green I think I messid before. Unfortunately it is not one of the free ones.

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Edward Lear, Jerusalem (1858)

Posted on January 12, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Jerusalem. Signed with monogram (lower left) and inscribed and dated ‘Jerusalem./ 1858’ (lower right). Pencil, pen and ink and watercolor. 7 1/8 x 14 7/8 in. (18.1 x 37.8 cm). Provenance With Davis Galleries, New York, where purchased … Continue reading →

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Another Lear Rebus (?)

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

The following was recently sold at an auction by Fonsie Mealy’s. It contains Lear’s only colour self-portrait I have seen. The sale also included some correspondence between a Mrs Elinor Wiltshire, the owner of the sheet at the time (1985), … Continue reading →

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