Edward Lear - part 5

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 - 4 also.

This is part 5 of 21- part series on the works of Edward Lear.


1841 Views in Rome, Italy:

Title page

1841 Views of Rome and its Environs
folio of lithographs published by T. M'Lean, London

Plate 1 Ancient Gate of Alatri
lithograph

Plate 2 Bracciano
hand-coloured lithograph 39 x 26.3 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Plate 3 Campagna of Rome from Villa Mattei
lithograph 25.5 x 40.5 cm

Plate 4 Cervara
lithograph

Plate 5 Valmontone
lithograph 24.1 x 37.9 cm
Yale Centre for British Art

Plate 6 Tivoli
lithograph

Plate 7 Tivoli
lithograph

Plate 8 Subiado
lithograph

Plate 9 Sanbuci
lithograph

Plate 10 Cirano, Fair of Sant Anatolia
lithograph

Plate 11 Rome from above Porta Portese
lithograph

Plate 12 Rome from Via Della Porta San Paolo
lithograph

Plate 13 Via Porta Penoiana, Rome
lithograph

Plate 14 Rome from the Convent of S.S. Giovanni e Paulo
lithograph 24.4 x 40.7 cm

Plate 15 Rome from Monte Pincio
lithograph

Plate 16 Roiate
lithograph

Plate 17 Rocca Ciovane
lithograph

Plate 18 Olevano
lithograph

Plate 19 Norba
lithograph

Plate 20 Lake of Nemi
lithograph

Plate 21 Gennazzano
lithograph

Plate 22 Collepardo
lithograph

Plate 23 Civitella di Subiaco
lithograph

Plate 24 Rome from Via della Porta San Paolo
lithograph 23.8 x 43 cm
Yale Centre for British Art

Italy 1841 - 1844:

1841 Rome, a View of the Forum from a Terrace
oil on canvas 27.3 x 37.4 cm

1842 Villa Adriana, Tivoli
black chalk heightened with white on greenish paper 40.1 x 27.5 cm
© The Trustees of the British Museum, London

1842c Near Tivoli: Ponte Nomentano
watercolour over graphite on cream paper 15.2 x 22.6 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1842c Near Tivoli: Ponte Nomentano
watercolour over graphite on cream paper 22.4 x 31.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1842c Near Tivoli: Ponte Nomentano
watercolour over graphite on tan paper 20.6 x 29.4 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1842c Near Tivoli
watercolour over graphite on cream paper 10.8 x 22.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1843 A View of Bracciano, Italy
pencil with stump and touches of white 28 x 40.5 cm

1843 Buon Ricovero, Rome
watercolour, heightened with white, on light blue paper 8 x 14 cm

1843 Orvieto
graphite and Chinese white on paper 22.5 x 46.7 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1843 Orvieto
watercolour and Chinese white on cream paper 28.6 x 25.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1843 Passerano
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on grey paper 20 x 38.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1843 View of Celano
watercolour, pen and red ink over pencil on grey wove paper 28 x 48.4 cm
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York

1843 Villa Caesia
watercolour, heightened with white, on light blue paper 7.5 x 17.5 cm

1844 Albe
black chalk, pencil, grey wash, heightened with white, on light buff paper 14 x 26 cm

1844 Antrodoco
black chalk, pencil, heightened with white, on light blue paper 13 x 18 cm

1844 Civita Castellana
oil on canvas 36 x 55.2 cm
The Berger Collection, Denver Art Museum, CO

1844 Civita d'Antino
black chalk, pencil, heightened with white, on light blue paper 16.5 x 28.5 cm

1844 Furore
sepia ink and wash over graphite with Chinese white on tan paper 17.4 x 12 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1844 Galera
watercolour, heightened with white, on light grey paper 17.5 x 11 cm

1844 In the Campagna near Rome
oil on canvas 29.2 x 73.7 cm

1844 In the Campagna
oil on canvas 24.8 x 46 cm

1844 L'Abbazia di Santo Spirito
black chalk, pencil, wash, heightened with white, on light grey paper 8.5 x 15.5 cm

1844 Lago di Fucino
black chalk, pencil, touches of wash, heightened with white, on light grey coloured laid paper 14 x 26 cm

1844 Lago di Scanno
black chalk, grey wash, heightened with white, on light blue grey paper 15 x 24 cm

1844 Lettere
sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 17.1 x 25.6 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1844 Monte Sant'Angelo
sepia ink and wash over graphite on blue paper 51.4 x 35.9 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1844 Near Atrani
sepia ink and wash over graphite on tan paper 25.8 x 17 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1844 Near Ostia: Tor Paterno
sepia ink and wash over graphite on white paper 25.5 x 45.3 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1844 Near Ravello
sepia ink over graphite on tan paper 17.3 x 11.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1844 Pizzoferrato
black chalk, pencil, heightened with white, on light buff paper 14 x 26.5 cm

1844 Positano
sepia ink over graphite on light tan paper 16.8 x 25.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1844 Positano
sepia ink, wash and Chinese white over graphite on blue paper 31 x 50 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1844 Santa Maria di Luco
black chalk, pencil, heightened with white, on light grey paper 9.5  20 cm