Author Archives: Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell’s Portrait Autograph

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell, Autograph Note Signed and with Original Sketch within a Second Signature. 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Newell used similar signatures on the back covers of his books too. Heritage Auctions.

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A Peter Newell Sketch

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell, Signed Original Pencil Sketch. 3.5 x 2 inches. Heritage Auctions.

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Peter Newell, A Hearty Laugh

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell, A Hearty Laugh. Drawing on paper. 5 x 8 inches. Signed. Heritage Auctions.

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Peter Newell’s Solomon Asks a Question

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell’s original illustration for John Kendrick Bang’s The Pursuit of the House-Boat. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1896, opposite p. 10. Solomon (the Gandalf-looking old man witha crown) is asking: “What is all this got to do with … Continue reading →

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Peter Newell’s Fairyland

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell, Fairyland. Oil on panel. 12 x 16 in. Signed lower right Heritage Auctions.  

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Mother Goose Dusts the Moon

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Peter Newell, cover for Harper’s Young People: An Illustrated Weekly, vol. VL No. 279, 3 March 1885. For more moon dusting see Aliquis’s The Flight of the Old Woman Who was Tossed Up in a Basket.

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Edward Lear’s Picture Letters

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Haughton, Hugh. “Just Letters: Corresponding Poets.” In Letter Writing Among Poets: From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop. Ed. Jonathan Ellis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. 57-80. [Google Books]: Thinking of ‘snail mail’ brings to mind two pictorial letters from the … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Representation of the Meteora Monasteries

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Della Dora, Veronica. “Ways of Seeing: The Making of a Holy Landscape of Rocks.” In Avril Maddrell, Veronica della Dora, Alessandro Scafi, Heather Walton. Christian Pilgrimage, Landscape and Heritage: Journeying to the Sacred. New York: Routledge, 2014. 45-66. [Google Books] pp. … Continue reading →

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Two Edward Lear Parrakeets

Posted on June 13, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Brown’s Parrakeet (c. 1831). Watercolour and pencil on paper. 40 x 29 cm. Plate 20 of Lear’s Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae. Edward Lear, New Holland Parrakeet (c. 1831). Watercolour and pencil on paper. 45.3 x 29 cm. … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear in the Third Millenium

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Marco Graziosi

I have just received a copy of the special issue of RSV: Rivista di Studi Vittoriani devoted to “Edward Lear in the Third Millenium: Explorations into his Art and Writing” edited by Raffaella Antinucci and Anna Enrichetta Soccio; here is … Continue reading →

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