Edward Lear, Landscape near Damascus (1858)

Posted on October 27, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Landscape near Damascus.
Watercolour. 22cm x 33cm.

See also.

MutualArt.

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Three Edward Lear Limericks Set to Music by John Muehleisen

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

John Muehleisen, Three Limericks
TTBB (div); a cappella; English (Edward Lear)
11′ 49″.

Requires a highly skilled men’s ensemble with a broad vocal range
(meaningful low D to treble clef C), and bold abandon in improvised vocal sounds
(animal noises). All three limericks are about ‘an old person;’ alternately humorous
and moving. Not easy, but worth it and lots of fun for a top-fl ight group of men!

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Edward Lear, Umbrella Pines

Posted on October 23, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Umbrella pines and an Italian villa.
Pencil with traces of red chalk. 31 x 23.5cm

Provenance
With Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.

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Edward Lear, Mount Parnassus from Livadia

Posted on October 11, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Mount Parnassus from Livadia.
Pencil. Variously inscribed with artist’s notes (throughout); titled (lower right)37 x 61cm (14½ x 24 in.)

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Edward Lear, Lago d’Iséo

Posted on October 9, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Lago d’Iséo, Lombardy.
Titled (lower left) and numbered ‘151’ (lower right). Brown ink and watercolour. 15 x 21.5cm.

Provenance
John Peter Cochrane Collection;
Sale, Bonhams, London, 31st March 2015, lot 28;
Private collection, UK

Following an extensive trip to the Holy Land in 1867, Lear headed to Lombardy in Northern Italy and spent a month travelling through the Italian lakes. This small study most likely dates from the end of May 1867.

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Edward Lear, Peacocks near Bhurtpore, Northern India (1874)

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Peacocks near Bhurtpore, Northern India (1874).
3 1 ⁄ 4 x 6 3 ⁄ 4 in. (8.3 x 17.2 cm.).

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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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