Category Archives: Edward Lear

The Animal World of Edward Lear

Posted on October 8, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

In her new biography of Edward Lear Jenny Uglow observes that “when he was low Lear always felt closer to the animals than to the smart people around him” (p. 229) and she has now expanded on the idea in … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and Food

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

You would think that writing over 500 essential pages on Edward Lear should have been enough for Jenny Uglow who, not thinking so, has a long article on food in Lear on the Times Literary Supplement website entitled “Full of Veal-Cutlets and … Continue reading →

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Jenny Uglow’s Edward Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Another biography of Edward Lear! One could be excused for reacting like this at the news of Jenny Uglow’s new book, after all there are at least five other easily available. Even though I had enjoyed all the books by … Continue reading →

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Mary Crawford Fraser on Edward Lear

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

For some reason we were drawn to choose quite a new spot for our villegglatura in the summer of 1870, a retreat in the Maritime Alps, of which till then I had seen very little. I think the train took … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Copy of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King

Posted on September 27, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord IDYLLS OF THE KING. LONDON: BRADBURY AND EVANS FOR EDWARD MOXON & CO., 1859. 8vo (7 x 4 1/4 ins.; 171 x 109 mm). Eight-page publisher’s catalogue dated July 1859 bound  before front free endpaper; some minor … Continue reading →

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The Fizzgiggious Fish’s Ancestor

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

British Library, Harley MS 624: From Edward Lear, More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes Botany &c. (1872), “Twenty-Six Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures:” The fizzgiggious Fish, who always walked about upon Stilts, because he had no legs.

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Learical Tennysons

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

LINCS to the Past, a project “focused on giving access to cultural heritage collections,” and the Arts and Humanities Research Council sponsor a new website, Learical Tennysons, dedicated to Edward Lear’s relationship to Alfred Tennyson and his family. It has been … Continue reading →

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September Readings

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has digitized its Edward Lear collection, which consists mostly of letters: 11 to William Holman Hunt, 2 to Luard and one to his sister Ellen from India, among others. … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Two Owls

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Study of an Eagle Owl, 1846. Signed and dated on branch: “E. Lear del. 1846.” Pen and brown ink on paper; paper dimensions: 8 ¾ by 6 ½ inches. Provenance George and Fanny Coombe (née Drewitt), Peppering House, Sussex. Edward Lear, Ye Owly … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Dedication of His Ionian Islands Book to Evelyn Baring

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

If you have 3,000 – 4,000 GBP to spend you might be interested in this The Saleroom lot: Greece.- Lear (Edward) Views in the Seven Ionian Islands, signed presentation copy from Lear to Evelyn Baring inscribed “Corfu March 1864” fly-leaf, … Continue reading →

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