Friday 7 April 2017

Edward Lear - part 9


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 - 8 also.

This is part 9 of 21- part series on the works of Edward Lear.


1848 Turkey:


1848 Abadolu Hisar
sepia ink, sepia and blue wash over graphite on cream paper 24.1 x 37 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Anadoluhisari, Istanbul, on the Bosphorus
pencil, pen and brown ink and brown wash on paper 27.4 x 35.4 cm

1848 Bebek
sepia ink and wash over graphite on cream paper 20 x 32.3 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Buyukdere
sepia ink, green and ochre wash over graphite on cream paper 20.2 x 32 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Buyukdere
sepia ink, sepia and blue grey wash over graphite on cream paper 17 x 32.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Buyukdere
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 12.8 x 23 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Fishermen’s houses on the Bosphorus
pen and brown ink, watercolour, heightened with white 10.3 x 21.4 cm

1848 Istanbul
sepia ink and wash over graphite on cream paper 22.6 x 32.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Istanbul
sepia ink, sepia and green wash over graphite on cream paper 21 x 32.3 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Istanbul
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper 25.2 x 17 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Kirecburnu
sepia ink, sepia, ochre, grey and green wash over graphite on cream paper 21 x 31.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Near Istanbul
sepia ink, sepia, ochre, green and purple wash over graphite on cream paper 34.5 x 52.9 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Pera
sepia ink, sepia and blue grey wash over graphite on cream paper 21.1 x 32.3 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Uskudar
sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 18.8 x 32.4 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Uskudar
sepia ink, sepia and brown wash over graphite on cream paper 31.2 x 23.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Macedonia:


1848 View of Ohrid, Macedonia
watercolour, body-colour and gum arabic over pencil 11.5 x 17.8 cm

1849 Egypt:


1849 ( Egypt )
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper 15 x 25.9 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1849 Gebel Serbal from above Wadi Useit, Egypt
pen and brown ink and watercolour over traces of pencil 12 x 22.5 cm

1849 Gebel Serbal, Egypt
pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil 13 x 22.5 cm

1849 Junction of Wadis, Egypt
pen and brown ink and watercolour over traces of pencil, on wove paper 15 x 22.5 cm

1849 Mt. Sinai
pen and brown ink, watercolour and body-colour, touched with white, on blue paper 15.5 x 23.1 cm
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1849 Near Wadi El-Sheikh
watercolour and sepia ink on white paper 11.6 x 19.4 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1849 Wadi Tayibeh, Egypt
 pen and brown ink and watercolour over traces of pencil 14 x 22.5 cm

1849 Greece:


1849 Athens
pen and brown ink and watercolour on paper 28.9 x 52 cm
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

1849 Athens
watercolour on paper 19.7 x 31.7 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, UK

1849 Between Ioannina and Metzovon
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 22.8 x 14 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1849 Between Louron and Kanza
sepia ink, sepia and blue wash over graphite on cream paper 21.2 x 32 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1849 Delphi
sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 52.3 x 36.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1849 Kastraki
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on tan paper 27.5 x 46.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1849 Lake Ozeros
sepia ink, sepia, ochre and purple wash over graphite on white paper 22.2 x 32.2
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1849 Leondari
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 32 x 52.7 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1849 Levadhia
watercolour on paper 12.7 x 22.5 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, UK

1849 Meteora
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper 34.7 x 52.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1849 Meteora: Varlaam
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper 32.8 x 52.7 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1849 Mount Parnassus
graphite and watercolour on paper 12.3 x 18.3 cm
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

1849 Near Dramisios
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on pale grey paper 26 x 43.4 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1849 Phyle
sepia ink over graphite on tan paper 24.9 x 36.6 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1849 Suli
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 32.2 x 23.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1949 Pashana's Bridge
sepia ink, blue, green and yellow wash over graphite on cream paper 31.2 x 45.3 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1851 Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania and Greece published by Richard Bentley & c. London:


1851 Ákhridha ( Ohrid )lithograph
1851 Archyrókastro ( Gjirokästër )lithograph

1851 Arta ( Arta )lithograph

1851 Avlóna ( Vlorë )lithograph

1851 Berát ( Berat )lithograph

1851 Durázzo ( Durazzo )lithograph

1851 Ioannina ( Ioannina )lithograph

1851 Khimára ( Himarë )lithograph

1851 Króia ( Krujë )lithograph

1851 Metéora ( Meteora )lithograph

1851 Monastir

lithograph

1851 Nicópolis ( Nicopolis )lithograph

1851 Párga ( Parga )lithograph

1851 Skódra ( Shkodër )lithograph

1851 Suli ( Souli )lithograph

1851 Tepeléni ( Tepelenë )lithograph

1851 Témpe ( Tempi )lithograph

1851 Tyrana ( Tirana )lithograph

1851 Vodhena ( The Waterfalls of Edessa )lithograph

1851 Yenidjé ( Giannitsa )lithograph