One of the most productive of Lear’s travels in terms of high quality landscape drawings was his visit to Mount Athos in Greece in September 1856. Stephen Duckworth’s new website presents all the current research on that visit. Lear’s journal has been lost but the site contains transcriptions of his extensive letters to his sister … Continue reading »
The purpose of this document is to give as complete a record as possible of Edward Lear’s works which are in public collections around the world and also those in institutions where researchers should be able to access them with permission. There are around 5000 such landscape drawings and many more finished watercolours and oil … Continue reading »
I am grateful to Michael Montgomery for giving my and Matthew Bevis’s book Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry a notice on the website of the Edward Lear Society. There are many points in his review with which I disagree, but principled disagreements are a natural part of literary scholarship. Mr Montgomery is evidently … Continue reading »
The first of Lear’s travel books. Beginning in 1837 Lear spent several winters in Italy. “Views of Rome” records his first impressions of the land that was to become a second home to him. In these panoramic lithographs he is more concerned with the dramatic scenery around Rome than with the Holy City itself. Their … Continue reading »
Explore Lear’s exuberant genius – as a natural history artist, a landscapist and as a creator of unforgettable nonsense with Jenny Uglow on Saturday 3 February 2018 – 11.30 am – 12.30pm at the Works on Paper Fair at the Royal Geographical Society. We have teamed up with the Works on Paper Fair which has kindly … Continue reading »
Lot 569 at Roseberys London, 5th-6th December 2017 Roseberys in London will be auctioning a very early watercolour by Edward Lear showing a Landscape with a woman by a dwelling. It is signed and dated 1836 and measures 19.1 x1 3.8 cm. For further info click on the link: https://auctions.roseberys.co.uk/m/lot-details/index/catalog/247/lot/103623/?url=%2Fm%2Fsearch%2F%3Fpage%3D3%26key%3D%26cat%3D159%26view%3Dlist Continue reading »
By Stephen Duckworth The project’s objective is to make an estimate of the number of original dated landscape drawings (as opposed to worked up watercolours) which Lear undertook in a career of over fifty years. No reliable estimate has previously been made of Lear’s work output as a topographical artist. Hope Mayo of the Houghton … Continue reading »
The St Bride Foundation has organised a talk which will be given by Douglas Downing on The Dalziel Brothers. Douglas is a descendent of theirs so it will be a very rich and detailed talk about his research into the family and their work throughout the 60 years that they ran the Camden Press. Most … Continue reading »
At £65 this book is not pitched at the average member, but as a work of scholarship it deserves a review for the Society’s files. In their Introduction, the joint editors, James Williams (organiser of the very successful 2012 Oxford Conference) and Matthew Bevis attempt to open up the ‘play’ in the Nonsenses to all … Continue reading »
Last night we celebrated the launch of “The Natural History of Edward Lear” by Robert McCracken Peck. Please see our previous post to learn more about the publication: https://www.edwardlearsociety.org/natural-history-edward-lear-robert-mccracken-peck/ In the photo from left to right: Derek Johns, Robert McCracken Peck, Nicholas Parsons and Spiro Flamburiari Continue reading »