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- How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear (1932)
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- G.K. Chesterton, Humour (1938)
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Category Archives: Edward Lear
Edward Lear, Turbia (La Turbie)
Edward Lear, Turbia. Pen and grey wash. Numbered and inscribed as titled ‘153 AT’ (lower left). 31.5 x 51cm (12¼ x 20 in.) Provenance Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd., London, 1982, no 212 Edward Lear travelled to Southern France in … Continue reading
Fae Kilburn’s Triptych, A Letter to Lear
Fae Kilburn made these on an antique printing press, which was brought to Ikon as the centrepiece of the exhibition Start the Press! Ikon invited eight regional printmakers to create new work on the press in front of a live … Continue reading
Edward Lear’s Studio Practice
Stephen Duckworth is at it again: he has created a new, very nice site, about Edward Lear and His Studio Practice, which covers all aspects of Lear’s painting activity: sketches, studio work. A very useful resource for anyone interested in … Continue reading
Edward Lear, Abetone (1883)
Edward Lear, Abetone. Ink, pencil and watercolour – Passo di Abetone, Italy, annotated and dated ‘7.30. pm, August 28, 1883’, titled verso on gallery label, 9.5 x 17cms. Provenance With Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., no. 146, English Exhibition, 1973; private … Continue reading
Edward Lear, Ponte Rotto, Rome
Edward Lear, Ponte Rotto, Rome. Watercolour, Indistinctly inscribed, and inscribed verso (now framed) 5.5″ x 9″ (14 x 22.8cm). I already posted this image, but it looks better here. The Saleroom.
Edward Lear’s 9000 Landscape Drawings
Stephen Duckworth has posted a new website with lots of information on Edward Lear’s tours and drawings / watercolours. It presents a lor of previously-unavailable information, so don’t miss it! Previous posts by Stephen: Edward Lear’s travels in the Peloponnese … Continue reading
The Abbey of Santo Spirito at Sulmona (1844)
Edward Lear, The Abbey of Santo Spirito at Sulmona. Signed lower right ‘E. Lear del. 1844’ and inscribed lower left ‘Abbadia di S. Spirito.’ Black chalk, pencil and stump heightened with white on buff paper 8.5 x 15cm Provenance John … Continue reading
Saint-John Perse, Joseph Conrad and Edward Lear
The following is the beginning of a letter by Saint-John Perse to Joseph Conrad, from St.-Perse, Letters. Translated and edited by Arthur J. Knodel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979. Letter 181, pp. 364-365. To Mr. Joseph Conrad “Oswalds,” Bishopsbourne, … Continue reading
Leap Year, by Edward Lear
From Edward Lear’s Diary, 29 February 1872.
Edward Lear, Paxo (1863)
Edward Lear, Paxo. Inscribed and dated 5 April 1863 and numbered 5, pen and sepia ink with colour washes, 12.5 x 18.5cm. The Saleroom.