Category Archives: Edward Lear

An Exile in Paradise

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

Derek Smith of Lear Productions informs me that their documentary on Lear’s travels in Albania and Greece, which won the Arts Silver World Medal at the 2009 New York Festivals International Television Programming and Promotion Awards, will be shown again … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and George Grove

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

One of the most famous of Edward Lear’s self caricatures is certainly the one in which he portrays himself while looking straight into the eyes of a strange “bug,” which is itself gazing at him. I had never cared to … Continue reading →

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Verbeek's Botanies

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

Sunday Press has announced the availability of their new collection reprinting in full colour the whole run of  Gustave Verbeek’s The Upside-Downs of Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo, the late Terrors of the Tiny Tads, as well the first … Continue reading →

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The Grave of Edward Lear

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

Mr. Eden Phillpotts, […] who lives in Devonshire and spends all his time in the beautiful English country, has written a book called “My Garden,” which will be published by the English Country Life. It is the thoughts of a … Continue reading →

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Cassowary vs Missionary

Posted on August 22, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

The tragic consequences of being a missionary in Timbuctoo were the subject of one of the infrequent comic strips in Punch (22 February 1868, vol. 54, pp. 80-1). The little poem around which the story turns is known in several … Continue reading →

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The Ladies and Scott

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

Moonshine, a magazine established in 1879, published the following parody of Edward Lear’s “Akond of Swat” on 1 January 1898 (p. 2); it was prompted by the leading dramatic critic of its age Clement Scott’s assertion that “it was practically … Continue reading →

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Before Little Nemo

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

“Wicked Willie’s Dream” by Walter M. Dunk appeared in Harper’s Round Table, vol. XVI, no. 821, 23 July 1895, 760 (click for full story): It clearly anticipates Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland, in particular for Willie’s position after his … Continue reading →

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New Edward Lear Resources

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

Just a quick post to mention a few new resources relating to Edward Lear: Never Mind the Pussycat: The Ornithological Art of Edward Lear, the companion site for a 2008 exhibition at the Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University, … Continue reading →

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De kat en de uil

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

Below is a pen and ink calligraphic drawing by Jacob Labotz representing a cat and an owl. Online translator software is not very good with 18th-century Dutch, but it is obvious they are fighting for the possession of the mouse … Continue reading →

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An Exile in Paradise

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Marco Graziosi

You may remember that RS Productions started working on a documentary on Edward Lear’s travels in Greece and Albania almost two years ago, and I linked to a promo last year. The first of the three parts is now going … Continue reading →

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