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Edward Lear, Girgeh on the Nile (1857)

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Girgeh on the Nile. October 1857 (not 1859 as in the auction post, not sure on the day either) Sold with: Edward Lear, Figures in a Mountain Landscape. 4 June 1852. The Saleroom.

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Edward Lear, Ithaca (1863)

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Ithaca. Inscribed with title and dated 1 May 1863 2.30pm, numbered ‘114’, pen, ink and watercolour and inscribed with notes, 33 x 49cm. The Department of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum Oxford label verso. Mallam’s Oxford.

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Edward Lear, Abu Simbel, Nubia, Egypt (1867)

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Abu Simbel, Nubia, Egypt. Titled Abu Simbl, dated 9-10AM, 9 Feby 1867, and numbered 382 once in pencil and once in ink, also inscribed with artist’s notes. Pen, brown ink, pencil and watercolour 25.5 x 54cm; 10 x … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, El Tainel (1854)

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, El Tainel, a view on the Lower Nile. Dated 4 p.m. Janr. 5. 1854, numbered 38 and inscribed with colour notes. Pencil, pen and brown ink with watercolour on buff paper 9 x 35.5cm; 3½ x 14in. Lear … 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 Mixes Painting and Nonsense

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Matt Bevis has recently brought to my attention the above drawing by Edward Lear in which landscape and nonsense get in some way mixed. The picture is at Tate and the text reads: I Galli The Sirens isles. 12. June. … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, El Karnak (1854)

Posted on January 25, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, El Karnak, Thebes. Inscribed and dated ‘El Koornek/Thebes 7:00 on/19.Feb.1854’ (lower left) and annotated throughout. Pencil and watercolour. 28 x 48.9cm (11 x 19 1/4in). Bonhams.

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Edward Lear, Potamos (1863)

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Potamos. Inscribed (in ink over pencil) in Greek, dated 21. May. 5.P.M. 1863 and numbered 189. 32 x 48cm. Lawrences.

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Edward Lear, Palermo from Pares (1859)

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Palermo from Pares. Inscribed Palermo/ fr. Pares/ April 6-/59, pen and ink and watercolour and pale blue/grey paper. 21 x 35cm. * Lear was not in Palermo on April 6th, 1859 so the date might have been confused. Lawrences.

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Edward Lear, The Monastery of Stavronikita, Mount Athos (1856)

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, The Monastery of Stavronikita, Mount Athos. Inscribed and dated ‘Stavronikeles.[sic]/ 2. Septr. 1856.’ (lower left) and ‘Ilex a oak’ (lower right), numbered ’42’ (lower right) and ‘1’ (verso)and further inscribed with notes. Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour. 6 … Continue reading →

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