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Edward Lear, Two Peacocks

Posted on December 6, 2024 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Two Peacocks. Watercolour on paper. 6 3/4″ x 9″ sheet, 17 3/4″ x 15 3/4″ MutualArt.

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Edward Lear, A Hummingbird

Posted on October 8, 2024 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, A Hummingbird. Pen and ink, watercolour, bodycolour and gum arabic on paper, signed lower left, 15cm x 12cm. Hansons.

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Peter Newell, Book with Cut-Out Eyes

Posted on November 2, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

No Edward Lear, for a change. I suspect this manuscript chapbook was a prototype for Peter Newell’s 1909 Jungle Jangle, a mild satire of Theodore Roosevelt. This “untitled book with cut-out eyes” is available on the Yale University Library website, … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Flora (1831)

Posted on July 24, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Flora. Watercolour over pencil on paper; signed lower left: E Lear., dated lower right: 1831., inscribed with title lower centre. 264 by 212 mm. Provenance With Davis Galleries, New York; sale, London, Christie’s, 25 April 1995, lot 131, where acquired by … Continue reading →

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Five Early Imaginary Birds by Edward Lear

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

The five examples of Edward Lear’s imaginary bird pictures in this sale (lots 245-249) are early instances of his work, which Robert McCracken Peck has dated to 1827-1830. They are typical of the Lear’s work during this period, in which … Continue reading →

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A New Looloo

Posted on November 22, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

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 … Continue reading →

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Unnatural History Lessons for Young People and Prize Fighters

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

Almost six years ago I posted the central part of an invented-animal alphabet published in the New York Journal in 1908. Allan Holtz of Stripper’s Guide (read his post, in which he identifies the author, Bob Addams, and links to more … Continue reading →

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A Parallelebiped

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

From Il Sole 24 ore, Sunday 10 February 2019.

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The Fizzgiggious Fish’s Ancestor

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

British Library, Harley MS 624: From Edward Lear, More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes Botany &c. (1872), “Twenty-Six Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures:” The fizzgiggious Fish, who always walked about upon Stilts, because he had no legs.

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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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