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“Twentieth of Twenty-one”: Edward Lear and his Siblings (2)

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

[Part 1] [Part 3] A second group of family documents is located at the National Art Library in London, “Papers of Ellen Newsom (Née Lear) and her family, 1795-1884,” (Manuscript MSL/1985/3) which includes several items relating to the family, among … Continue reading →

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“Twentieth of Twenty-one”: Edward Lear and his Siblings (1)

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

“Twentieth of twenty-one children” must be the most-often-repeated phrase in discussions of Edward Lear’s early life: no biographical sketch omits the snippet; but, did Jeremiah and Ann Lear really have so many children? Families of such size were not uncommon … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Canadian Cousins

Posted on July 2, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

[The following is from Steve Uglow’s research on Edward Lear’s family: I posted the first part, on Frederick Harding, a couple of months ago as part of  a discussion of some family portraits.] The references to cousin Caroline Jones in … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear & Friends in Corfu

Posted on June 17, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Houghton Library owns an album of photographs from Franklin Lushington’s family, and its website includes a finding aid linking to a couple of digitized photographs. The one above is of particular interest as it shows some of the people Edward … Continue reading →

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A Note to Miss Cobden

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear appears to have met “a Rev. Mr. & Miss Cobden” at Emma Parkyns’s in 1859.  Villa Emily San Remo 15.March.1881 Dear Miss Cobden, I had to send an answer to your note very hurriedly, – not wishing to … Continue reading →

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A Few More Lear Family Portraits

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

[I prepared this post together with the one on the portrait of nine-year-old Edward Lear by his sister Ann over three years ago, but then inexplicably forgot to post it; like the previous one it is mostly based on material from the … Continue reading →

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A Note to John Newbott from Edward Lear

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

International Autograph Auctions have a note written by Edward Lear on 8 February to a collegue in Rome, introducing Gussie Bethell: LEAR EDWARD: (1812-1888) English Artist, Illustrator and Poet. Brief A.L.S., Edward Lear, one page, small 8vo, Nice, 8th February 1865, to Newbolt. … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear in the TLS

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

The Times Literary Supplement for 3 February has not one, not two, but three articles on Edward Lear: Adam Kendon’s “Edward Lear Painting Parrots” is a review of Robert McCracken Peck’s recent The Natural History of Edward Lear; Ben Westwood’s “Lear and … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Nave of Arundel Church

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

“Nave of Arundel Church,” from M.A. Tierney, The History and Antiquities of the Castle and Town of Arundel: Including the Biography of Its Earls, from the Conquest to the Present Time. London: G. And W. Nicol, 1834. Volume 2, facing p. … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Arabian Nights

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Bloomsbury: Four volumes of “The Arabian Nights’s Entertainments”, all owned by Edward Lear, bound in original cloth and with black gilt morocco lettered titles to spines. All signed in ink on the title pages “Edward Lear, Sanremo” with additional pen … Continue reading →

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