Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, View of Bellagio (1867)

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, View of Bellagio, Lake Como, Lombardy, Italy. Inscribed and dated ‘Lago di Como/ Bellaggio/ 26. May 1867. 6. 7. PM./ & 27th. May. 10/.11.30 AM./ (is not all the background too high & large?’ and further inscribed in Greek … Continue reading →

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Vivien Noakes’s Edward Lear Archive at Somerville College

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Stephen Duckworth reports: On 6 July 2016 a celebration took place at Somerville College Oxford to celebrate the Edward Lear archive of Vivien Noakes, which has generously been given to the College by Michael Noakes.   The archive includes copies … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, View of Buccione (1867)

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, View of Buccione, Lago d’Orta, Novara, Italy. inscribed and dated ‘4.30 – to 6.30. PM./ June.1.1867./ Lucéra./ near Buccione (Gozzano.)/ Lago d’Orta’ and further indistinctly inscribed in pencil (lower left) and further inscribed with colour notes and numbered ‘(213)’ … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, View of Florence fron San Miniato

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, View of Florence from San Miniato, Italy. Dated ‘June.12th.’ (lower left) and further inscribed with colour notes. Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour. 13 5/8 x 21 ½ in. (34.6 x 54.6 cm.) In 1861 Lear was asked to … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, The Monastery of Chilandari (1856)

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, The Monastery of Chilandari, Mount Athos, Greece. Inscribed and dated ‘Chiliandarion / 17. Sept. 1856./ (18.”Monastery)’ (lower right) and further inscribed with colour notes and numbered ’84’ (lower right). Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with white. 14 … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, The Monastery of Xenophontos (1856)

Posted on June 25, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, The Monastery of Xenophontos, Mount Athos, Greece. Inscribed ‘Xenophonta’ (in Greek) and inscribed and dated ’16 Sept. 1856. 14.’ ‘Monastery.’ (lower right), further inscribed with colour notes and numbered ’83’ (lower right). Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour, … Continue reading →

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New Edward Lear Books Online

Posted on June 25, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

The Getty Research Portal has links to a series of Edward Lear-related books; what I think is the first digital edition of Views in Rome and Its Environs. London: Thomas McLean, 1841. as well as Illustrations of the Family of … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell’s Signor Marconi

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Marco Graziosi
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Uncle Arly’s Tune (and a New Lear Self-Caricature)

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

In a recent post celebrating Edward Lear’s 204th brithday on the Untold Lives blog at the British Library Alexandra Ault, Curator of Manuscripts and Archives 1601-1850, posts a nice self-caricature of Lear and his cat Foss from a letter to … Continue reading →

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Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and Edward Lear

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

It has always irked Paul that posterity regards him as the tuneful, cosy, safe side of the Lennon–McCartney partnership and John as the rebel, experimenter and iconoclast. The casting had been decided in Liverpool, then Hamburg, where he’d always hung … Continue reading →

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