Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Syra, Greece (1856)

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Syra, Greece. Pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil. Inscribed and dated lower left: Syra. Octr 4 1856, further inscribed with the artist’s colour notes. 301 by 500 mm. Edward Lear travelled extensively throughout Greece in the 1850s and 1860s … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Helicon and Lake Capais from the Moutains above Kokhino on the Way to Thebes

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Helicon and Lake Capais from the Moutains above Kokhino on the Way to Thebes. Pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil. Inscribed with the title and the artist’s colour notes. Lear drew this watercolour during his first … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Copy of Colenso’s Ten Weeks in Natal

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

On John William Colenso. The Saleroom.

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Cuthbert Bede’s Limericks

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

BEDE, Cuthbert, pseud. (Edward Bradley) & HOW, William Walsham, Bishop of Wakefield. (A Collection of 24 Manuscript Limericks, each with an original ink illustration by Cuthbert Bede.) 4to. [1846] Full red roan, blind borders; rather rubbed. The volume contains a note … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, An Unpublished Letter

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

The letter below was probably addressed to Charles Marcus Church‘s brother when Edward Lear got back to England after a long period abroad. Lear and Church had travelled in Greece in 1848 (see Edward Lear’s Grecian Travels) and Church had … Continue reading →

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More to Read on Edward Lear

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Here is a review of Jenny Uglow’s biography from Country Life, 11 October 2017, p. 180: Barry Dicdcock’s review of the same book in the Herald Scotland. And Suzi Feay’s in the Financial Times. Anthony Madrid’s “On Edward Lear’s ‘The … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Landscape Drawings: How Many Were There?

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

by Stephen Duckworth (the 2017 version is below, the latest 2019 version, which includes a few changes, can be downloaded as a pdf). The project’s objective is to make an estimate of the number of original dated landscape drawings (as … Continue reading →

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New about Edward Lear

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Daniel Karlin reviews Jenny Uglow’s Mr. Lear in this week’s TLS; while his final opinion is largely positive, Uglow has something interesting to say on almost every facet of Lear’s life and work, taken individually. When she gets off the … Continue reading →

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Three Limerick Drawings by Edward Lear

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Three original pen & ink drawings by Edward Lear, taken from ‘A Book of Nonsense,’ first published in 1846. The drawings have been examined and fully authenticated as Lear’s work by the late Vivien Noakes, the world expert on Edward … Continue reading →

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The Animal World of Edward Lear

Posted on October 8, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

In her new biography of Edward Lear Jenny Uglow observes that “when he was low Lear always felt closer to the animals than to the smart people around him” (p. 229) and she has now expanded on the idea in … Continue reading →

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