Category Archives: Edward Lear

Master Drawings in NY

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

The NY Times reports that the Master Drawings New York 2011 show is in full swing, and features an Edward Lear watercolour of “The Cedars of Lebanon:” Andrew Wyld, a London dealer, among many interesting pictures, has several more Edward … Continue reading →

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The Day of the Wombat

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Peacay of BibliOdyssey posts “some delightful scratchy illustrations from the 1962 book by Ruth Park, ‘The Adventures of the Muddle-headed Wombat’” in honour of Australia Day. So here is my homage. Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s lament for the death of his … Continue reading →

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View of Wallenstadt See and View of Grütte

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Two more views from Edward Lear’s 1854 tour of Switzerland. View of Wallenstadt See, Switzerland inscribed and dated ‘Wallenstadt See./24 & 25 Sept. 1854’ (lower left) and numbered ‘430’ (lower right) and extensively inscribed with colour notes and indistinct inscription … Continue reading →

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Lake Thun with the Schlöss Oberhofen

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Lake Thun with the Schlöss Oberhofen pencil and watercolour on paper 12 3/8 x 10¼ in. (31.4 x 26 cm.) Lear left London for a walking tour of Switzerland on August 1854. On 6 August he wrote to his sister … Continue reading →

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View of Gründelwald, Switzerland

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

View of Gründelwald, Switzerland inscribed and dated ‘Gründelwald/13 Augt and 7. Septr.’ (lower left) and numbered ‘436’ (lower right) and extensively inscribed with colour notes and ‘all[?] white misty sky’ (upper left) and identifications of plants including ‘juniper, moss & … Continue reading →

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Mr. Lear Show-Case, Some Extracts

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Benjamin Charavner sent out some extracts from the show I mentioned a few weeks ago, Mr. Lear Show-Case; the recording, as he notes, is not high quality, but acceptable: “c’est juste une photo sonore d’un moment qui fut, pour tout … Continue reading →

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Bye Bye Pussycat

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Stevyn Colgan annouces that he is closing down his Runcible Spoon blog, devoted to interpretations of the poems of Edward Lear and posts a best-of selection, as well as a step-by-step illustration of how he did his own version of … Continue reading →

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Lear’s Macaw is no longer Lear’s

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

It is old news, apparently, but I only found out today: the Lear Macaw is now officially to be called the Indigo Macaw, according to this article, reviewing Whose Birds by Bo Boelens and M. Watkins (Yale University Press, 20049).

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Mr Leer, Humpty Dumpty and Finnegan

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

There is an interesting article in the the London Review of Books (vol. 32, no. 24, 16 December 2010), “Quashed Quotatoes,” in which Michael Wood reviews a new edition of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. The opening paragraphs discuss Joyce’s debt … Continue reading →

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The Dong Postcard

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Here is a nice postcard with on of Ivo de Weerd‘s illustrations for Edward Lear’s “The Dong with a Luminous Nose,” I got it from eBay.

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