Category Archives: Edward Lear

Edward Lear, Congo Finches

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Congo Finches, Africa. Pencil sketch,  heightened with watercolour, on paper. Signed, 235 x 189mm., [c.1825-30]. Bonhams.

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Edward Lear, A Cottage by a Stream (1839)

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

  Edward Lear, A Cottage by a Stream. Signed and dated May 16th 1839. Pencil, unframed. 25.25 x 36.75cm; 10 x 14½in. Provenance Captain (later Admiral) R.A. Oliver, served in New Zealand, and the south seas, in the late 1840s and early … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Study of an Ash (1837)

Posted on September 2, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Study of an Ash. Signed, titled and dated 1837. Pencil, unframed. 25.25 x 36.75cm; 10 x 14½in. Provenance Captain (later Admiral) R.A. Oliver, served in New Zealand, and the south seas, in the late 1840s and early 1850s, charting the … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear to Miss Selwyn

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear: Autograph letter addressed to Miss Selwyn, San Remo, 19 April, 1883, 3 pp., 8vo, with two pen and ink drawings of skipping lambs and a large self-portrait caricature of Lear taking a tumble, writing of his “head being bad. … Continue reading →

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Another Edward Lear Letter to Mrs Hankey

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear:  Autograph letter addressed to Mrs. Hankey, from Rendcomb Park, Cirencester, dated Sept. 1, 1872, 3pp. 8vo., written at speed in his characteristic hand, linking many of the words, concerning commissions for drawings, his movements and an account of a … Continue reading →

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Ann Mortimer’s Owl and Pussy-cat

Posted on August 30, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Anne Mortimer R.M.S., S.B.A., (b.1958) They dined on mince and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible spoon Signed. Watercolour, mounted, unframed. 18.5 x 38cm; 7¼ x 15in. Illustration from The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear, published by … Continue reading →

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An Edward Lear Letter to Mrs Thomson Hankey

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear: Autograph letter addressed to Mrs. Thomson Hankey, Brambridge Place, Winchester, dated 9 Sept. 1867, on blue paper, 2 pp. 4to, the first page nearly filled (c. 150 x 200mm) with a large drawing of Lear ensconced in a melon-bed … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Study of a Bramble

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Study of a Bramble. Artist’s pencil note reads `items all deep red`, pen and sepia ink, on a shaped piece of paper (possibly from a sketchbook leaf). Paper 6.5 x 29cm approx. Provenance: London, The Fine Art Society Ltd, … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Monte Generoso (1878)

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Monte Generoso. Inscribed Mte Generoso/24 July. 1878/ 4.30.P.M. (in ink, over his own pencil inscription), pen and brown ink with blue wash, over traces of pencil. 15.5 x 25.5cm. Lear spent six summers at Monte Generoso on the Swiss/Italian … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Goats in a North African Landscape

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Goats in a North African Landscape (Egypt?) Signed with monogram, watercolour and pencil 11 x 17.5cm.

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