Category Archives: Edward Lear

Reviews of Edward Lear’s Masada

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

Masada was probably the painting that decided Edward Lear’s fortune as a painter, and its effect was far from positive; however, 11 February 1861 was a particularly happy day for Lear as the Times published a “favourable notice” of his … Continue reading →

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Nonsense for Chrismas 1874

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

On 16 December 1874, Judy ran a review of nursery rhyme books, which includes a reference to Edward Lear. He is mentioned as the author of… Alice in Wonderland. While I have often received e-mails asking about the famous poems … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and Phonetics

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

John Well’s phonetic blog discusses what we can learn on Victorian pronunciation from Edward Lear’s limericks. The Opinionator NY Times blog suggests that Victorian naturalists might be a model for some of Lear’s most famous characters: The Brittle-Stars Danced. The … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and the Brothers Dalziel

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

So far, Lear has mentioned his nonsense rhymes very little in the Diaries; for instance on 19 September 1860, while at Little Green with the Hornbys, one of the families that most appreciated his nonsense, he writes: I sang nonsense … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear Reviewed in Judy

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Marco Graziosi

A BOOK OF NONSENSE There was once upon a time — I think it was last Tuesday week — a silly old bald-headed gentleman, who took a Brompton omnibus, and found another silly old bald-headed gentleman inside laughing fit to … Continue reading →

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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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