One of Helen Stilwell’s Looloos, part of a series publshed in the New York World Sunday Magazine in 1906. This one appears to have been a postcard.
For more information and several other examples, see here and in the Nonsense in the Early comics section of nonsenselit.org.
Don’t forget:
On November 21, Robert McCracken Peck, Curator of Art and Artifacts, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, will be giving a free lecture on The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear at 6:00pm at the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
This event will be livestreamed on the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC) Facebook page and the HMSC website. A recording of this program will be available on the Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Videos page approximately three weeks after the lecture.
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Next Friday, November 15, I will be in Cava de’ Tirreni for a presentation of Edward Lear: Visioni inedite della costa di Amalfi; if you are in the area, please come meet me and the other authors. Download the full brochure.
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On November 21, Robert McCracken Peck, Curator of Art and Artifacts, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, will be giving a free lecture on The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear at 6:00pm at the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.
This event will be livestreamed on the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC) Facebook page and the HMSC website. A recording of this program will be available on the Harvard Museum of Natural History Lecture Videos page approximately three weeks after the lecture.
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Sara Lodge will be presenting the last concert of Edward Lear songs of the year on December 12 at at Combermere Abbey in Cheshire, at 7:00pm.
The performers are Sara herself, baritone Edward Robinson and pianist Rachel Fright.
The concert is free but donations to local charities will be encouraged.
Edward Lear, Near Massa.
First sketch, 22 August 1838.
Edward Lear, Capri from near Massa.
Second version, 1839.
Signed and dated ‘Edward Lear del 1839’ (lower right) and titled (lower left). Pencil, charcoal and watercolour. 43.2 x 26.7cm (17 x 10 1/2in).
This is on sale at Bonhams.
Edward Lear, Capri from Massa.
Third version, 1840.
Edward Lear, Seaford Looking towards Newhaven.
Pencil, ink and watercolour. Seaford, looking towards Newhaven. Inscribed ’18 Sep/41′
7.25 x 11.75in.
I have some doubts about the authenticisty of this one, the handwriting on the picture does not look like his, and he would have signed it; see also the back of the picture below.
Edward Lear, Citara.
Pen ink and wash over . ‘Citara 14th June 1844.’ Inscribed and dated, studio stamp
10 x 17.75in.
Provenance
Ex-John R. Baddeley Collection
Edward Lear, Lake Lugano from Monte Generoso.
Signed with monogramme (lower left) and inscribed verso No I / Lake Lugano
Watercolour over pencil heightened with white. 12.4 x 18.7cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/4 in).
This October Sara Lodge has organized two events on Edward Lear’s music, a central subject of her recent Inventing Edward Lear (recently reviewed in The TLS together with James Williams’s book on Edward Lear).
Edward Lear’s Bongs, Dongs and Songs will take place on 12 October at Gumby Hall and Garden, Lincolnshire, for more information and booking, which is essential, go to the website for the event.
The next day, 13 October, there will be another concert of Edward Lear’s music at Ightham Mote, Kent; booking is also essential. More info.
Both events will see the participation of Lear expert Sara Lodge, acclaimed pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris, and baritone Edward Robinson. At Ightham the event will also be followed by an evening meal!
Lear (Edward, 1812-1888). Autograph letter in the third person, 65 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, circa 1853, to Mrs Bond, thanking her ‘for a very obliging letter, & also for the Post Office order for 8 shillings. The set of songs was sent yesterday: & Mr Lear hopes it may arrive safely though he now wishes he had kept them til he had heard from Mrs Bond. Mr Church was his advisor, & the address was said to be sufficient to ensure their safety. Should there be any difficulty, Mr Hansen, Mr Lear’s Landlord, will answer any enquiries after Mr L has gone’, written on the final page of a bifolium, the first page bearing a printed advertisement for the publication of ‘Poems & Songs by Alfred Tennyson, Set to Music, and inscribed to Mrs Alfred Tennyson, by Edward Lear’, a little spotting and creasing, a few short fold splits, 8vo.
Must have got this from an auction house, but can’t remember which.
BM 1975,0920.13. ©Trustees of the British MuseumPenry Williams, “Civitella Gazette”, view of the Serpentara; a group of artists, including Samuel and Hannah Palmer and Albin Martin, sketching in a landscape. 1839 Pen and brown ink.
“Mr. Lear” is the long-legged one sitting at the foot of the rock
[front]
Civitella Gazette.
price. 2 Bugs. View of the [Serpentara.] July. 1. 1834. presented gratis.
[back]
of Civitella has been made (for the poor) among the residents at [] & a considerable sum has been realized.
July 1. 1839
BM 1975,0920.13. ©Trustees of the British MuseumCurator’s comment:
Penry Williams has captured a group of artists at work in the landscape of Civitella on July 1st in 1839. Samuel Palmer is shown in hat and spectacles on the crest of a rock with his wife Hannah (née Linnell) in her bonnet nearby, and Albin Martin seated below. The Palmers were slowly making their way north and back to England after being in Italy since the end of 1837. (see W. Vaughan, E. Barker and C Harrison, ‘Samuel Palmer’, BM, London, 2005, pp. 179-80)
Olevano and Civitella were favourite spots for artists in the 19th century, frequently staying in one or the other and meetingin the middle with the result that there are numerous paintings, drawings and prints by them showing either Olevano seen from Civitella and the Serpentara or of Civitella seen from Olevano and the Serpentara.
Compare with a self-portrait by a friend of Edward Lear’s, Marianne North, showing the conditions in which she often had to work:
A sketch of botanical artist Marianne North perched in a tree – so as to better view the plants she wished to draw. “How I got up and how I got down is still a mystery to me”, (Marianne writing to Dr Allman, from Seychelles, 1883.) Kew Gardens LAA Team.
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