Edward Lear, Mount Sinai, 1849.
Pencil, pen and brown ink on buff-coloured paper. Works on Paper. 11 ½ x 18 ½ in. (29.2 x 47 cm.)

MutualArt.

Edward Lear, Certosa del Pesio (San Bartolomeo).
Inscribed with title and dated ‘Augt.1870’ l.r., pencil, pen and brown ink. 31 x 48.5cm; framed 57 x 73cm.

Provenance
With The Fine Art Society.

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Edward Lear, Areka Palm in Hugh Nevill’s Garden, Ratnapoora.
Inscribed with title and dated ‘Novb 1894 [actually 1874] 4.30pm’ l.l., further inscribed l.r., pen and brown ink and wash. 44.5 x 24.5cm; framed 66 x 45cm.

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Edward Lear, Pines in Strathfieldsaye Park.
Pencil heightened with white on grey paper. 23cm x 16.5cm.

MutualArt.

Edward Lear, Lago d’Orta, 2nd June 1867.
Watercolour With Pencil, Pen And Brown Ink On Paper. 23cm x 45cm.

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Edward Lear, Zante, 1863.
Ink and watercolour on paper.
27 May, 1863.

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Edward Lear, Zante, 1863.
Ink and watercolour on paper. 36 x 54 cm.
28 May, 2P.M.

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Inner Voices – Complete fan made animation.

Stewart Lee’s Pea-Green Boat will be (re-)published in September with illustrations by David Waywell.

Gordon Ginzburg, Etti. “Voracious Nonsense: The Cannibalistic Pleasures and Gluttonous Delights of Edward Lear’s and Laura Richards’s Nonsense Poetry.” Eating Cultures in Children’s Literature: National, International and Transnational Perspectives. Eds. Gasperini, Anna, Björn Sundmark and Laura Tosi. Malmö: Malmö University Press, 2024. 59-74. https://doi.org/10.24834/isbn.9789178775651_4

Hoffman, A. Robin. “The Perils and Pleasures of Pronunciation and Perspective in Edward Lear’s Nonsense Alphabets.” In Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye: British Approaches to Literacy through the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 88-111. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198938163.001.0001

Leonardi, Angela. “‘Travelling with the eyes open’. Il senso del non-luogo nel viaggio in Basilicata e Calabria di Edward Lear.” Scritture del Paesaggio e Memoria nei Luoghi. Eds. lo Feudo, Michela, Antonio Rollo and Erminia Surmonte. Napoli: Federico II University Press, 2025. 57-74. http://www.fedoabooks.unina.it/index.php/fedoapress/catalog/view/763/849/3897.

Wales, Katie. “Where Owls Nest in Beards: Making Sense of Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense.” Style as Motivated Choice: In Memory of Peter Verdonk (1934-2021). Eds. Burke, Michael and Joanna Gavins. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2025. 93-113. https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.44?locatt=mode:legacy

Graziosi, Marco. “The Evolution of Edward Lear’s A Book of Nonsense: The Making of the 1846, 1855, and 1861 Editions.” Book History 28.2 (2025): 282-315. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2025.a976869.

Dilworth, Thomas. Edward Lear as a Victorian Modernist: The Illustrated Limericks. New York and London: Routledge, 2026. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003675020

Edward Lear, Study of the Roman Campagna.
Signed ‘Edward Lear del.’ (lower left), inscribed and dated ‘Roma/1840’ (lower right)
pencil heightened with white. 41 x 27 cm (upper left corner missing), framed and glazed 63 x 45 cm.

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