Friday 24 March 2017

Edward Lear - part 3

1862 Edward Lear by McLean, Melhuish & Haes
albumen carte-de-visite 9.2 x 5.7 cm
© National Portrait Gallery, London

Edward Lear (1812  - 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, and is known now mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; as an illustrator of Alfred Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes, and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry.

For a full biography see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 - 2 also.

This is part 3 of 21- part series on the works of Edward Lear.


1837 The Moselle River to The Italian Lakes:



1837 Arona
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 16.7 x 25.3 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Barma
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 16.6 x 25.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Berncastel
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 26 x 17.4 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Boppart
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 19.8 x 27.9 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Castle of Elz
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 21.2 x 27.9 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Castle of Elz
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 27.7 x 20 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Castle of Elz
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 27.8 x 19.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Chiavenna
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 25.5 x 36 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Como
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 16.6 x 25.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Corenna
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 25.8 x 36 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Feriolo
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 25.5 x 36 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Frankfurt
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 27.7 x 19 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Gandria
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 25.7 x 36.1 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Geneva
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 22.8 x 34.6 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Lago Maggiore
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 25.6 x 36.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1839 Isola Bella, Lago Maggiore
graphite heightened with white
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1837 Luxembourg
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 17.3 x 25.7 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Mennagio
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 24.7 x 38 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Merl
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 17.2 x 12.4 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Near Visp
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 25 x 35 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Oberwesel
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 19.4 x 27.9 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Orta
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 25.5 c 35.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837 Villeneuve
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 25.6 x 16.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

 1837 S. Ambrogia
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 25.5 x 36 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University



1837-44 Italy:



1837 View of Florence
graphite heightened with white on brown paper 24.6 x 35.2 cm
© The Trustees of the British Museum, London

1837c Florence: The Ponte Vecchio
watercolour over graphite and Chinese white on cream paper 23.3 x 33.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1837c Florence?
watercolour over graphite 12.3 x 15.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Alvito
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 21.7 x 35.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Amalfi ( Italy )
black chalk with touches of white gouache on grey-green paper 34.9 x 25.4 cm
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1838 Amalfi
graphite on grey paper 16.4 x 25.7 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Anagni
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 22.5 x 35.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Atrani
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 16.8 x 12 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Back of the Hemicycle Looking on to the Stadium, Palatine
graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper
Tate, London

1838 Civitella
graphite, black chalk and Chinese white on grey paper 25.3 x 34.6 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Ingresso di Villa Malta da Via Capo

1838 Olevano
black chalk, graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 25.5 x 35.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Olevano
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 25.5 x 35.7 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Olevano
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 25.7 x 36 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Olevano
sepia ink, sepia and blue wash and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper 16.5 x 25 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Olevano
watercolour over graphite on cream paper 8.2 x 12.6 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Paliano
graphite, black chalk and Chinese white on grey paper 25.3 x 34.7 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Rocca d'Anzi
graphite on grey paper 25.7 x 35.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Rome ( Piazza Barberini )
graphite and Chinses white on grey paper 17.2 x 25.6 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Rome
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 24.7 x 36 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Rome
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 16.5 x 25.3 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Rome: S. Francesco di Paolo
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 35.5 x 25.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Rome?
watercolour over graphite on cream paper 23.5 x 33 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 San Cosimata
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 36 x 25.7 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 San Germano ( Monte Cassino )
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 22.2 x 35.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 San Germano ( Monte Cassino )
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 23.7 x 35.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Sora
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 25.5 x 35.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard Universit
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1838 Sora
watercolour over graphite 11.2 x 15 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Stairs Leading to S. Pietro in Vincoli
graphite and gouache on paper
Tate, London

1838 Study of Trees near Sorrento
pencil on green wove paper 35.1 x 25.2 cm

1838 Subiaco?
watercolour and sepia ink on blue paper  9.7 x 18.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Tivoli
black chalk and Chinese white on tan paper 30.5 x 45 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Tivoli
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 12.2 x 17 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Tivoli
graphite and Chinese white on grey paper 17.2 x 12 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1838 Tivoli
graphite and Chinese White on grey paper 18.3 x 41 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University




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