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Edward Lear, A Pair of Birds on a Tree Branch
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. MutualArt.
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Edward Lear, Albetone, Monte Modino (1883)
Edward Lear, Albetone, Monte Modino (1883). The Saleroom.
Edward Lear, Study of a red and yellow macaw, Macrocercus Aracanga
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 … Continue reading
Edward Lear, An English Country House
Edward Lear, An English Country House. Pen and ink. 31 x 50.5cm (12 3/16 x 19 7/8in). Provenance With Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, no. 29336. Private collection, UK. According to a label attached to the reverse, this work … Continue reading
Edward Lear, Landscape with a viaduct and a castle in the distance (1850)
Landscape with a viaduct and a castle in the distance, 1850. Pen and ink, and watercolour heightened with white on paper. 13.7 x 18.9cm; 5½ x 7½in MutualArt.
Edward Lear, Sen Remo (1864)
Edward Lear, San Remo. Dec. 10, 1864. Pen and ink and watercolour with traces of pencil. 17.5 x 54cm (6 7/8 x 21 1/4in) MutualArt.
Edward Lear, Jafa (1884)
Edward Lear, Jafa. Signed with the monogram and dated 1884, further inscribed and dated ‘Feb. 17. 1867’, watercolour and bodycolour 9cm x 17cm (3.5in x 6.75in) Travelling by ‘the grumpy roary groanery of camels’ across the desert, Lear arrived in … Continue reading
Edward Lear, Dead Camel
Edward Lear, Dead Camel Getting Eaten by Buzzards. Signed with the monogram, watercolour and bodycolour 18cm x 37cm (7in x 14.5in) The Saleroom.
Edward Lear, Ajaccio Sunrise, Corsica
Edward Lear, Ajaccio Sunrise, Corsica. Signed with the monogram, pencil heightened with bodycolour 12.5cm x 19cm (5in x 7.5in) The Saleroom.
Edward Lear, Lotus Eaters, Euboea, Greece
Edward Lear, Lotus Eaters, Euboea, Greece. “They sat them down upon the yellow sand.” Inscribed and numbered ‘51’, pen and ink and grisaille 9.5cm x 14.5cm (3.75in x 5.75in) Alfred, Lord Tennyson;by descent until 1980. Alfred Tennyson and Edward Lear … Continue reading