Category Archives: Edward Lear

Edward Lear, Some Birds from John Gould’s Birds of Europe

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Little Egret. Great Black-Backed Gull, Audouin’s Gull [and] Glaucous Gull. Great Egret. Great Bustard. Rock Ptarmigan. Edward Lear’s lithographs with contemporary hand colouring, old ‘punch holes’ to upper margin, 340 x 520 mm. Originally published in John Gould’s ‘Birds of Europe’. … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Abu Simbel, Nubia, Egypt (1867)

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Abu Simbel, Nubia, Egypt. Titled Abu Simbl, dated 9-10AM, 9 Feby 1867, and numbered 382 once in pencil and once in ink, also inscribed with artist’s notes. Pen, brown ink, pencil and watercolour 25.5 x 54cm; 10 x … Continue reading →

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More Aspects of Edward Lear

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

The third part of Matthew Bevis’s series on Edward Lear  for the Houghton Library Blog is now online and discusses Lear’s relationship with birds, pelicans in particular. Please note there are TWO pages, the main text is in the sefcond … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, El Tainel (1854)

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, El Tainel, a view on the Lower Nile. Dated 4 p.m. Janr. 5. 1854, numbered 38 and inscribed with colour notes. Pencil, pen and brown ink with watercolour on buff paper 9 x 35.5cm; 3½ x 14in. Lear … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear Learns to Ride a Horse

Posted on February 4, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

The British Museum’s curator comments for no. 1970,0411 reads: The following text is from the label for the display at the British Museum ‘Watercolours and Drawings by Edward Lear: a Bicentennial Celebration’: In 1842 Lear made a tour of the Abruzzi, … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear Mixes Painting and Nonsense

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Matt Bevis has recently brought to my attention the above drawing by Edward Lear in which landscape and nonsense get in some way mixed. The picture is at Tate and the text reads: I Galli The Sirens isles. 12. June. … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, El Karnak (1854)

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, El Karnak, Thebes. Inscribed and dated ‘El Koornek/Thebes 7:00 on/19.Feb.1854’ (lower left) and annotated throughout. Pencil and watercolour. 28 x 48.9cm (11 x 19 1/4in). Bonhams.

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Edward Lear’s Diaries & More Reading Material

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

The Houghton Library blog has posted the second part of Matt Bevis’s series on Edward Lear devoted to the importance of the diaries which, as I’m sure most of you know, are available online as images and partial transcripts. It seems … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Potamos (1863)

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Potamos. Inscribed (in ink over pencil) in Greek, dated 21. May. 5.P.M. 1863 and numbered 189. 32 x 48cm. Lawrences.

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Edward Lear, Palermo from Pares (1859)

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Palermo from Pares. Inscribed Palermo/ fr. Pares/ April 6-/59, pen and ink and watercolour and pale blue/grey paper. 21 x 35cm. * Lear was not in Palermo on April 6th, 1859 so the date might have been confused. Lawrences.

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