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Edward Lear, View of Bellagio (1867)

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, View of Bellagio, Lake Como, Lombardy, Italy. Inscribed and dated ‘Lago di Como/ Bellaggio/ 26. May 1867. 6. 7. PM./ & 27th. May. 10/.11.30 AM./ (is not all the background too high & large?’ and further inscribed in Greek … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, View of Buccione (1867)

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, View of Buccione, Lago d’Orta, Novara, Italy. inscribed and dated ‘4.30 – to 6.30. PM./ June.1.1867./ Lucéra./ near Buccione (Gozzano.)/ Lago d’Orta’ and further indistinctly inscribed in pencil (lower left) and further inscribed with colour notes and numbered ‘(213)’ … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, View of Florence fron San Miniato

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, View of Florence from San Miniato, Italy. Dated ‘June.12th.’ (lower left) and further inscribed with colour notes. Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour. 13 5/8 x 21 ½ in. (34.6 x 54.6 cm.) In 1861 Lear was asked to … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, The Monastery of Chilandari (1856)

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, The Monastery of Chilandari, Mount Athos, Greece. Inscribed and dated ‘Chiliandarion / 17. Sept. 1856./ (18.”Monastery)’ (lower right) and further inscribed with colour notes and numbered ’84’ (lower right). Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with white. 14 … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, The Monastery of Xenophontos (1856)

Posted on June 25, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, The Monastery of Xenophontos, Mount Athos, Greece. Inscribed ‘Xenophonta’ (in Greek) and inscribed and dated ’16 Sept. 1856. 14.’ ‘Monastery.’ (lower right), further inscribed with colour notes and numbered ’83’ (lower right). Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour, … Continue reading →

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New Edward Lear Books Online

Posted on June 25, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

The Getty Research Portal has links to a series of Edward Lear-related books; what I think is the first digital edition of Views in Rome and Its Environs. London: Thomas McLean, 1841. as well as Illustrations of the Family of … Continue reading →

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Margaret Terry Meets Edward Lear

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

The summer of 1870 we spent in the mountains south of Turin. … That summer was memorable to me for my first experience in hero worship. Those were the days of the table d’hôte. The guest assembled and sat together … Continue reading →

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A Few Links

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

I have been checking and fixing a few links in the bibliography pages and added a new, interesting article to the Studies on Edward Lear page: Antinucci, Raffaella. “‘Sensational Nonsense.’ Edward Lear and the (Im)purity of Nonsense Writing.” English Literature … Continue reading →

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John Fuller, Edward Lear in Corsica

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

John Fuller, “Edward Lear in Corsica.” Times Literary Supplement, 7 July 1995. New Selected Poems: 1983-2008. London, Chatto & Windus, 2012. Is it not unpleasant, at fifty-six years of age, to feel that it is increasingly probablu that a man … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear (attrib.), Mount Athos (1856)

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Marco Graziosi

Attibuted to Edward Lear, Mount Athos. Bears signature, date [1856] and inscription, watercolour and pencil. 37.5 x 17.5cm (14 3/4 x 6 7/8in). Bonahms.

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