Category Archives: Edward Lear

Edward Lear. Bedouin Soldiers on a Hillside

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Bedouin Soldiers Resting on a Hillside. Pen and brown ink on wove paper. 117×188 mm; 4 3/4×7 1/2 inches. Signed in ink, lower left recto. Provenance Private collection, Chicago. invaluable.

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Edward Lear, Saint Moritz, Switzerland

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Saint Moritz, Switzerland, watercolour on grey paper, depicting a panoramic landscape, with a village nestling at the foot of a range of snow-topped mountains, trees in the foreground to the left, and clouds gathering overhead, annotated in brown ink … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, On the Nile

Posted on March 6, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, On the Nile. Pen and brown ink on laid paper. Watermarked: 1836 and embosed with a fleur de lys. 4 1/4″ x 7 1/4″ sheet; 11″ x 13 1/4″. Provenance George and Fanny Coombe (nee Drewitt), Peppering House, … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear: Moment to Moment

Posted on February 22, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

The exhibition, Edward Lear: Moment to Moment, opening on 9 September, now has a web page where you can find more information. Co-curated by Matt Bevis and Jonathan Watkins at Ikon in Birmingham.

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Per la Calabria selvaggia: 109 previously unpublished drawings by Edward Lear

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Raffaele Gaetano, author of another interesting booklet on Edward Lear, Senza ombre di cerimonie. Sull’ospitalità nei «Diari di viaggio in Calabria» di Edward Lear, which by the way contains some of the recipes of the peculiar dishes offered to Lear … Continue reading →

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Five Early Imaginary Birds by Edward Lear

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

The five examples of Edward Lear’s imaginary bird pictures in this sale (lots 245-249) are early instances of his work, which Robert McCracken Peck has dated to 1827-1830. They are typical of the Lear’s work during this period, in which … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Mount Delphi (1849)

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Mount Delphi. Signed and dated with multiple inscriptions: (bottom left) “Sunset 5. / 20. am. Mount Delphi from Livadia –  & Copias (an important former lake, drained in the late 19th century; it features in other Lear drawings, not ACOFUIS) April … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Hephaistion (1848)

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Hephaistion (incorrectly described as “The Acropolis” in the Auction web page). With seated figures in the foreground. On paper. Signed and dated. Inscribed: “Athens / June 10th 1848”. (reverse) Thomas Agnew & Sons label: “no 36717”; “no 75 … Continue reading →

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The Limerick Man: Lear in Ireland

Posted on February 4, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

This Sunday, at 6 pm and free thereafter to listen to online, on the Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric fm, Sara Lodge, author of the recent Inventing Edward Lear, presents The Limerick Man – the story of Edward Lear, and the … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, View of the Acropolis and the temple of Hephaistos, Athens (1848)

Posted on January 31, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, View of the Acropolis and the temple of Hephaistos, Athens. Pen and brown ink and watercolor over pencil, heightened with white; inscribed lower right: Athens – from the West / June 5-6-7- 1848 / 5; further inscribed with extensive … Continue reading →

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