Tag Archives: Italy

Edward Lear, Amalfi: Still Life (1838)

Posted on May 29, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Rustic Still Life. Inscribed ‘Amalfi’ and dated ‘July.11.1838’. Watercolour with oil and pencil. 5 ¼ x 7 ½ inches. Exhibited ‘Chris Beetles Summer Show’, 2021, No 25. Early in 1837, a group of subscribers, led by the Earl … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, A Rest on the Way to Pisa (1861-1863)

Posted on May 27, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, A rest on the way to Pisa. Signed with monogram and dated 1861 and 1863. Watercolour with bodycolour. 6 ¼ x 10 ¼ inches. Literature Vivien Noakes, Edward Lear 1812-1888, London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1985, pages 126-127, … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Ancient Gate of Alatri

Posted on May 14, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear’s lithograph of the Ancient Gate of Alatri from Views in Rome and Its Environs. In a coloured version, under Lear’s supervision? I’m finding more and more of these lithographs in colour, so perhaps the book was sold in different … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Calabria Journal edited by Raffaele Gaetano

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Raffaele Gaetano has published a new edition of Giuseppe Isnardi’s historic translation of  Edward Lear’s Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, & c. The book contains a long introduction by Gaetano and is richly illustrated with photographs showing … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Young Boys Bathing, Pisa in the Distance (1861-1863)

Posted on March 11, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Young boys bathing, Pisa in the distance. Watercolour and bodycolour. Monogrammed and dated 1861 and 1863. 15 x 25cm. The Saleroom.

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Edward Lear’s Views in Rome and Its Environs in colour

Posted on March 8, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

[17. Via Porta Pinciana, Rome looking to the Quirinal Palace.] Edward Lear, Views in Rome and its Environs; Drawn from Nature and on Stone, lithographed title vignette of Ostia and 25 lithographed views of Rome and the Campagna by Lear, … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Villa Adriana (1842)

Posted on February 22, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Villa Adriana. Signed and dated ‘Edward Lear del 1842’ (lower right), titled (lower left). Pencil and black  chalk heightened with white. 24.1 x 36.9cm (9 1/2 x 14 1/2in). Provenance Anon. sale, Phillips, London, 11 November 1997, lot … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Two Views of Venice from the Bacino (1865)

Posted on January 17, 2023 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Two views of Venice from the Bacinot. The first signed with monogram (lower right); the second inscribed and dated ‘Venice. 27. Novr 1865’ (lower left) and further inscribed and numbered ‘27.Novr. (66)’ (lower right) and further inscribed with … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, S. Gregorio & Tivoli

Posted on November 5, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Tivoli and San Gregorio, a pair, the first inscribed ‘Tivoli’ (lower left); the other inscribed and dated ‘S.Grigorio [sic]/23rd April’ (lower left). Pen and ink and wash, heightened with white. The first 7 x 17.2cm (2 3/4 x … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, A Palm, Agrigento, Sicily (1847)

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, A Palm, Agrigento, Sicily (1847). Ink on paper. 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (sheet), 17 x 14 1/2 in. (frame). MutualArt.

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