Category Archives: Edward Lear

Edward Lear, Pentedattilo

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Pentedattilo, Calabria. Watercolour, signed with monogram, 16.1x22cm. Roseberys.

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Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Oxford University Press has announced the publication of the book collecting the 2012 bicentenary essays, it will (probably) appear in August and will have 400 pages! Meanwhile, Bonhams is selling a collection of approximately 8,000 letters addressed to Lady Frances, Countess Waldegrave and … Continue reading →

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J.R. Green on Edward Lear in 1871

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Writing to Miss Olga von Glehn from Villa Congreve (also), San Remo, on 10 March 1871, John Richard Green states: I have just been seeing Lear’s pictures packed off for the Academy. I shall be home just in time for a … Continue reading →

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Emo Verkerk’s Portraits of Edward Lear

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Painter and sculptor Emo Verkerk has produced several portraits of Edward Lear over the years, here are three, from the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag website. Studie voor Portret van Edward Lear (1985). Oil and collage on plastic canvas. 55,5cm x 40cm. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: … Continue reading →

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More Edward Lear Online from Houghton

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

A quick note on new Edward Lear materials which Houghton Library have placed online: Studies of palm trees. 1876. TypDr 805.L513.76p (1-8). Poems and songs by Alfred Tennyson / set to music, and inscribed to Mrs. Alfred Tennyson by Edward … Continue reading →

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The Archbishop of Dublin (NOT a Lear Limerick)

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

There was an Archbishop of Dublin Whom corns were incessantly troubling Till one night he arose And stuck pins in his toes Which assuaged that Archbishop of Dublin. This was listed on at a Sotheby’s auction as one in a … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Letters to Ellen Rawson & Daughter

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

This is part of a collection of 11 letters Edward Lear wrote to Mrs. Ellen Rawsom and her daughter Constance which were sold at Sotheby’s on 10 December 2013. Does anyone know where they ended up? The catalogue description: SERIES … Continue reading →

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There Was an Old Man of Cape Horn…

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

A variant version of both illustration and verse for ‘There was an Old Man of Cape Horn’. As first published in the 1846 edition of A Book of Nonsense, the limerick concludes “So he sat on a chair, till he … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Corfu (1856)

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Corfu. Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Corfu/ELear./1856′ (lower right). Oil on canvas. 26.5 x 49.5cm (10 7/16 x 19 1/2in). The present lot shows a distant view of the citadel at Corfu, with the Albanian mountains beyond. Painted from a high … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, View of Ohrid, Macedonia (1848)

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, View of Ohrid, Macedonia. Signed with monogram, inscribed and dated ‘Akridha 1848’ (lower right). Watercolour, bodycolour and gum arabic over pencil. 11.5 x 17.8cm (4 1/2 x 7in). Bonhams.

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