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Edward Lear, A Ruin

Posted on November 4, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Pencil, a sketch on paper depicting a ruin of a grand building possibly a monastery, signed to lower left, details and magazine clipping from previous owner verso, under glass 14cm x 9cm & 26cm x 22.5cm overall. Some … Continue reading →

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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. The Saleroom.

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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.) Invaluable.

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Edward Lear, Ravello (1844)

Posted on January 20, 2024 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, ‘Ravello, 9 June 1844’. Pen and ink, 16 x 12cm, mounted but unframed. Lear was in the area on Ravello on this date, evidenced by other works from June 1844 including pen sketch of Amalfi inscribed and dated … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Albenga from the Railway(1880)

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Albenga From the Railway. Inscribed with colour notes and dated: 6 Sep 1880/ 6.40 pm and with the lines from Tennyson “The day was sloping towards his western bower.” Pen and sepia ink with pencil and touches of … Continue reading →

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