Category Archives: Edward Lear

?????? ??? Well, ehm, it really looks like a Lear biography but… it’s in Russian! Can anybody confirm?

1 Portrait of Catherine Lear From the National Portrait Gallery, London, a silhouette portrait of Edward’s youngest sister, by an unknown artist.

JOHN UPDIKE: Lear, Far and Near Even during Edward Lear’s lifetime, his nonsense verse tended to detract from the seriousness of his landscape painting. In the corner of a letter Lear had written Ruskin in 1883, the great critic nonresponsively … Continue reading →

You Elegant Fowl This is only the Food column from the New York Times Magazine, but I could not resist the title! No reference to Lear is made in the article.

Foundation for the Preservation of the Hyacinth Macaw A nonprofit foundation incorporated in 1991 with the goal of preserving the Hyacinth Macaw and other birds of the world’s tropics through education, research, ecotourism and captive breeding.[Has a gallery with some … Continue reading →

The following items link to pages in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, with descriptions of collections containing Edward Lear material.

STEVEN H. SCHEUER COLLECTION OF TELEVISION PROGRAM SCRIPTS [Includes script for a 10 Jun 1956 ‘Nonsense (Edward Lear)’ program.]Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

OSBORN 19TH CENTURY BOUND MANUSCRIPTS (FOLIO)[Full list of the Osborn shelves material, which includes Lear watercolors.]Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University