Edward Lear, Peacock

Posted on October 5, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Peacock.
Watercolor On Paper. 9″ x 7″ sheet, 17 3/4″ x 15 3/4″.

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Edward Lear, A Pair of Birds on a Tree Branch

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, a Pair of Birds on a Tree Branch.
Pencil, Watercolor And Bodycolor, Heightened With Gum-Arabic And Gold Paint. 7″ x 5″ sheet.

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Edward Lear, Albetone, Monte Modino (1883)

Posted on October 1, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Albetone, Monte Modino (1883).

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Edward Lear, Study of a red and yellow macaw, Macrocercus Aracanga

Posted on September 29, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Study of a red and yellow macaw, Macrocercus Aracanga.
Pencil. 12.3 x 11cm (4 13/16 x 4 5/16in).

Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, London, 15 July 1999, lot 127.
Private collection, UK.

When offered at Sotheby’s, it has been suggested by Vivien Noakes that this study relates to the group of working drawings for Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae (Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, The Houghton Library, Harvard University). This drawing, which shows Lear concentrating particularly on the feathers, would have been executed in the Zoological Society of London between 1830 and 1832.

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Edward Lear, An English Country House

Posted on September 27, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, An English Country House.
Pen and ink. 31 x 50.5cm (12 3/16 x 19 7/8in).

Provenance
With Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, no. 29336.
Private collection, UK.

According to a label attached to the reverse, this work is from an album of drawings illustrating Tennyson’s poems. It is suggested that the work comes from the collection of Sir Osbert Sitwell, sold at Sotheby’s in 3 March 1965.

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Edward Lear, Landscape with a viaduct and a castle in the distance (1850)

Posted on September 25, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Landscape with a viaduct and a castle in the distance, 1850.
Pen and ink, and watercolour heightened with white on paper.  13.7 x 18.9cm; 5½ x 7½in

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Edward Lear, Sen Remo (1864)

Posted on September 23, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, San Remo. Dec. 10, 1864.
Pen and ink and watercolour with traces of pencil. 17.5 x 54cm (6 7/8 x 21 1/4in)

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Edward Lear, Jafa (1884)

Posted on September 21, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Jafa.
Signed with the monogram and dated 1884, further inscribed and dated ‘Feb. 17. 1867’, watercolour and bodycolour
9cm x 17cm (3.5in x 6.75in)
Travelling by ‘the grumpy roary groanery of camels’ across the desert, Lear arrived in Palestine in the spring of 1867 after visiting Egypt during the first months of that year.

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Edward Lear, Dead Camel

Posted on September 19, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Dead Camel Getting Eaten by Buzzards.
Signed with the monogram, watercolour and bodycolour
18cm x 37cm (7in x 14.5in)

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Edward Lear, Ajaccio Sunrise, Corsica

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Ajaccio Sunrise, Corsica.
Signed with the monogram, pencil heightened with bodycolour
12.5cm x 19cm (5in x 7.5in)

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