Tag Archives: self caricature

Another Lear Rebus (?)

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

The following was recently sold at an auction by Fonsie Mealy’s. It contains Lear’s only colour self-portrait I have seen. The sale also included some correspondence between a Mrs Elinor Wiltshire, the owner of the sheet at the time (1985), … Continue reading →

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Thurber on Lear’s Influence on his Work

Posted on September 7, 2022 by Marco Graziosi

THURBER MUSES ON HIS INFLUENCES. THURBER, JAMES. 1894-1961. Typed Letter Signed (“James Thurber”), to Angus Davidson who is preparing a biography on Edward Lear, 2 pp, 4to, n.p., July 7, 1937, toning to both leaves, both leaves laid down to … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear and the Barrel-Orgon

Posted on September 17, 2021 by Marco Graziosi

I found this among my photographs, and the quality is really very bad. I don’t remember where I got it or how to date it except that it was drawn in a period when Lear was staying at 15, Stratford … Continue reading →

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Three New Pieces of Nonsense by Edward Lear

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Marco Graziosi

The latest TLS (no. 6169 of 25 June 2021) contains three new Nonsense compositions by Edward Lear, found by Amy Wilcockson and Edmund Downey among the papers in the Charnwood Autograph Collection, British Library Add MS 70949, f. 239, f. … Continue reading →

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Two Essays and a Lecture

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Marco Graziosi

Ekaterina Shatalova sent me two PDF file containing an interesting article on Edward Lear’s Russian illustrators and her Master’s thesis: Russian_Illustrators_of_Edward_Lear Illustrating Nonsense Lear and the Shock of the New Meanwhile, Robert Peck’s lecture on The Remarkable Nature of Edward … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear Visits Captain Hornby

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

The following is one of Lear’s earliest autobiographical picture stories, from the mid 1830s according to Liebert (from whose book, Lear in the Original, the story is taken), but it was more probably drawn in 1841, when Lear was in England … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s “Rich and rare were the gems she wore”

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

I have already discussed Edward Lear’s Irish sources here, here and here. Another fine instance is the parody in four pictures that Lear drew of Thomas Moore’s “Rich and rare were the gems she wore” from the first volume of Moore’s Irish … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear Learns to Ride a Horse

Posted on February 4, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

The British Museum’s curator comments for no. 1970,0411 reads: The following text is from the label for the display at the British Museum ‘Watercolours and Drawings by Edward Lear: a Bicentennial Celebration’: In 1842 Lear made a tour of the Abruzzi, … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear Visits Beachy Head with His Sister Sarah

Posted on December 29, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

An Edward Lear picture story in 10 panels (nos. 5, 7 and 8 missing) relating an excursion with Lear’s sister Sarah Street. The pictures have been copied (or traced) from Lear’s presumably lost originals and bound with the typescript of … Continue reading →

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Learical Tennysons

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

LINCS to the Past, a project “focused on giving access to cultural heritage collections,” and the Arts and Humanities Research Council sponsor a new website, Learical Tennysons, dedicated to Edward Lear’s relationship to Alfred Tennyson and his family. It has been … Continue reading →

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