Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Two Pictures of Monte Generoso (1881-82)

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Mount Generoso – a “Bella Vista.” Inscribed with title and dated l.l.: 5.30 pm/9 Sept 1881. Pen and sepia ink, 10 by 17 cm. Harry Moore-Gwyn. Edward Lear, Monte Generoso. Inscribed and dated in ink l.r.: M.Generoso/5 pm/15 July 1882and … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Castle with a Waterfall

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Castle by a waterfall with a mountain beyond. Heightened watercolour and black chalk, mounted unframed, 11.5cm x 7.5cm. Provenance Christie’s 6/12/2008 lot 181. The Saleroom.

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Edward Lear and Frederic Church

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

Commenting on Edward Lear’s impressive painting of Beachy Head, in her recent Inventing Edward Lear, Sara Lodge writes, among much more: In Beachy Head, Lear directly recalls the dramatic composition of [Frederic] Church’s The Icebergs in a way that is … Continue reading →

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Harriet Lear’s Copy of Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria. London: Bentley 1852. Large 8vo, with presentation inscription ‘Harriet Lear from her brother Edward, Nov. 29 1853’, plates as required (one with partial tear without loss), in worn half binding. … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Valletta, Malta

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Valletta, Malta. Signed with monogram l.r. Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour. 11.3 by 18.3cm.; 4½ by 7¼in. Lear’s first trip to Malta, which he described as ‘that much beloved place’ (see Lady Strachey, ed., The Letters of Edward Lear, … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

Posted on June 18, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives. Signed with monogram l.l. Pencil and watercolour heightened with white. 17 by 37cm., 6¾ by 14½in. After leaving Corfu by the spring of 1858, Lear visited Jerusalem. He arrived during Holy Week and immediately began … Continue reading →

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New Bibliography

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

Dubois, Martin. “Edward Lear’s India and the Colonial Production of Nonsense.” Victorian Studies 61.1 (2018): 35-59. Williams, James. “The Whole Situation.” Cambridge Quarterly 47.4 (2018). 387-394. (A review of Uglow’s Mr Lear). Rizal, Sarif Syamsu. “Actantial Models in the owl … Continue reading →

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Meeting Edward Lear in Heaven

Posted on June 8, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

She wears a retro dress, the waist nipped small now that the tumors don’t bulge, a skirt that swirls, and dangling red earrings. Time’s different there and just this second she’s spotted the tall man excusing himself from Auden and … Continue reading →

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Northrop Frye on Edward Lear’s Last Lines

Posted on June 2, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

July 23, 1932 I read in a book on the limerick the other day by some supercilious ass who talked about Edward Lear as a pioneer but a childish and inane primitive because his first and last lines ended with … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Wadi Feiran (1849)

Posted on May 5, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Wady Feiran, Sinai Peninsula. Ink, watercolour and gouache on blue/grey paper. Inscribed and dated by the artist ‘ Wady Feiran / 24 January 1849 / 8 A.M.’ and with artist’s note ‘Palms (?cut) off’, ‘Torrent bed’, ‘all in … Continue reading →

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