Category Archives: Edward Lear

Caricature Portraits of Edward Lear, Oscar Wilde and A. C. Swinburne

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Sheet size: 152 × 176 mm. Presented in a black wooden frame with UV glass. Stamped on verso for publication in the Sunday Telegraph. Pen and ink on wove paper. Caricature portraits of the three artists, drawn as if portraits … Continue reading →

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Four Reviews of Children’s Books (1872)

Posted on November 24, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Sing-Song: a Nursery-rhyme Book. By Christina G. Rossetti. With 120 Illustrations by Arthur Hughes. Routledge. The Princess and the Goblin. By George Macdonald. Strahan. Through the Looking-glass, and what Alice saw there. By the Author of Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Letter to Montgomery and Picture Letter

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Autograph letter signed to “My dear Montgomery”, reading “I am just about to pack and send off your two drawings of Athens – after all without any ‘howls’ – large or small. But I have to thank you … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Monte Generoso (1878)

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Monte Generoso, Italy. Pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil. Inscribed and dated: Monte Generoso / 5. August 1878/ 2-4 pm./ (& 6th 10-11.30/am) and further inscribed with colour notes. 380 by 542 mm Monte Generoso is situated on the … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Syra, Greece (1856)

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Syra, Greece. Pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil. Inscribed and dated lower left: Syra. Octr 4 1856, further inscribed with the artist’s colour notes. 301 by 500 mm. Edward Lear travelled extensively throughout Greece in the 1850s and 1860s … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Helicon and Lake Capais from the Moutains above Kokhino on the Way to Thebes

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Helicon and Lake Capais from the Moutains above Kokhino on the Way to Thebes. Pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil. Inscribed with the title and the artist’s colour notes. Lear drew this watercolour during his first … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Copy of Colenso’s Ten Weeks in Natal

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

On John William Colenso. The Saleroom.

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Edward Lear, An Unpublished Letter

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

The letter below was probably addressed to Charles Marcus Church‘s brother when Edward Lear got back to England after a long period abroad. Lear and Church had travelled in Greece in 1848 (see Edward Lear’s Grecian Travels) and Church had … Continue reading →

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More to Read on Edward Lear

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Here is a review of Jenny Uglow’s biography from Country Life, 11 October 2017, p. 180: Barry Dicdcock’s review of the same book in the Herald Scotland. And Suzi Feay’s in the Financial Times. Anthony Madrid’s “On Edward Lear’s ‘The … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Landscape Drawings: How Many Were There?

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

by Stephen Duckworth (the 2017 version is below, the latest 2019 version, which includes a few changes, can be downloaded as a pdf). The project’s objective is to make an estimate of the number of original dated landscape drawings (as … Continue reading →

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