Tag Archives: Corsica

Two more Bavella Pictures by Edward Lear

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Forest of Bavella. 4 PM. 29 April 1868. Edward Lear, Forest of Bavella. 8.20 AM. 29 April 1868. Both pictures, from the Houghton Library, Harvard University, will be on display at the Birmingham Ikon exhibition in autumn. See … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Bavella Pictures

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

I receive from the lucky owner of one Bavella sketch and publish (with some editing). The drawings I am interested in are illustrated in Philip Hofer’s book Edward Lear as a Landscape Draughtsman, plates 72 & 95. Both these drawings … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Valdoniello, Corsica

Posted on September 15, 2021 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Valdoniello, corsica. Signed with monogram (lower left). Pencil and watercolour heightened with white on paper. 4 ¾ x 7 ¼ in. (12 x 18.5 cm.) Provenance with The Fine Art Society, London, April 1963. with Abbott & Holder, … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Grosseto, Corsica (1868)

Posted on November 15, 2020 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Grosseto, Corsica. Ink and watercolour. Titled and dated 3 May 1868 5:30am lower left, numbered 165 lower right and variously annotated. 33.5 x 51cm (13 x 20 in.) Provenance Pawsey & Payne Ltd., London Edward Lear travelled to Corsica … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, The Pass of Monte d’Oro, C0rsica

Posted on October 16, 2020 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, The Pass of Monte d’Oro, Corsica. Signed with monogram (lower left) and inscribed ‘Snow peaks exact & sharp off cloud/ Foliage all Beech. on turf/ small stream in foreground (verso). Provenance Frances, Countess Waldegrave and her husband, Chichester … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, The Pass of Bavella, Corsica

Posted on December 14, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, The Pass of Bavella, Corsica. Signed with the artist’s monogram EL lower left. Watercolour and pen and brown ink, heightened with white on blue paper. 30 by 46.6cm., 11¾ by 18½ in. framed: 51 by 67.5cm., 20 by 26½in. Provenance … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Calvi, Corsica

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Calvi Corsica. 8. 9.5 x 13.25 ins., (24 x 34 cms.). Watercolour. Signed with monograph. The Saleroom.

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Edward Lear, The Forest of Bavella

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, The Forest of Bavella. Oil on canvas. 57 ½ by 94 ½ in. (146 x 240 cm.), circa 1878-1888. This monumental view of the pine forest of Bavella, in southern Corsica, is the largest of three known oil paintings that Lear … Continue reading →

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John Fuller, Edward Lear in Corsica

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

John Fuller, “Edward Lear in Corsica.” Times Literary Supplement, 7 July 1995. New Selected Poems: 1983-2008. London, Chatto & Windus, 2012. Is it not unpleasant, at fifty-six years of age, to feel that it is increasingly probablu that a man … Continue reading →

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Christmas Holiday Reading Online

Posted on December 24, 2014 by Marco Graziosi

Several new books by Edward Lear are now available in full online; of particular interest: Lear, Edward. A Book of Nonsense. First Edition. London: T. McLean, 1846. [Florida State University Digital Library] Lear, Edward. A Book of Nonsense. Third Edition. … Continue reading →

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