Wednesday 5 April 2017

Edward Lear - part 8

Self-Portrait

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 - 7 also.

This is part 8 of 21- part series on the works of Edward Lear.


1848 Albania:


1848 Below Tragjas
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper
19.2 x 29.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Berat
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper
20.9 x 29.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Berat
watercolour and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper 29 x 20.9 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Between Ohrid and Elbasan
sepia ink, sepia and blue wash over graphite on cream paper 34.5 x 53 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Between Ohrid and Elbasan
sepia ink, tan and ochre wash over graphite on cream paper 15.7 x 23 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Between Ohrid and Elbasan
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper
17.5 x 25.7 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Dherm
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on tan paper 29.5 x 46.7 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Dukat
sepia ink, green, blue and red wash over graphite on cream paper 35.3 x 52.6 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Dukat
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper
19.4 x 29.1 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Durres
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 35 x 53.3 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Durres
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 35.9 x 53.1 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Edhessa
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on blue paper 26.2 x 46.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Edhessa
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 21 x 32.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Elbasan
sepia ink, sepia, green, blue, red & ochre wash over graphite on cream paper
19.8 x 32.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Elbasan
sepia ink, sepia, ochre, green and blue wash over graphite on grey paper
24.5 x 34.9 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Elbasan
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 15.3 x 23.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Elbasan
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 19.9 x 32.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Elbasan
watercolour, sepia and blue ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper 20.9 x 29 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Gelibolu ( Gallipoli )
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 17.2 x 25.9 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Kanine
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper
19.8 x 29.3 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Khan Qukes
sepia ink, sepia and ochre wash over graphite on cream paper 19.8 x 31.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Kruje
sepia ink, sepia, ochre, grey and purple wash over graphite on cream paper
32 x 23.7 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Kruje
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper
33.2 x 53.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Kruje
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 34.1 x 53.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Lezhe
sepia and blue ink, sepia and blue wash over graphite on cream paper
35.5 x 53 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Monastir
sepia ink and wash over grey paper 21 x 29.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Monastir
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 32.2 x 53 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Monastir
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 34 x 53 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Monastir
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper
16.4 x 25.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Near Kudhes
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper
29 x 20.9 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Near Tirane
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on tan paper
25.9 x 17.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Ohrid
sepia ink and wash over graphite on grey paper 26 x 36 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Ohrid
sepia ink, sepia, ochre and purple wash over graphite on cream paper
34.5 x 53 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard Universit
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1848 Ohrid
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white on blue grey paper 17.4 x 25.9 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Ohrid
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white on blue grey paper 29.2 x 20.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Ohrid
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper
17.4 x 25.9 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Ostrovo
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper.32.7 x 52.9 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Ostrovo
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on tan paper
26.7 x 47 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Palase
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on grey paper
17.5 x 25.9 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Rrug'e Bardhe
sepia ink, sepia, blue, green, black and red wash over graphite on cream paper 53.2 x 36.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Saloniki
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 15 x 23 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Saloniki
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 15.2 x 23 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Tepelene
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on light grey paper 32.2 x 50.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Tirane
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on grey paper 25 x 35.3 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Tirane
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on blue grey paper 20.7 x 29 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Tragjas
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on cream paper 36 x 53 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Yiannitsa
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 17 x 25.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1851 The Falls of the Kalama, Albania


1848 Greece and the Greek Islands:


1848 Athens
watercolour, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper 17.1 x 45.4 cm
Yale Centre for British Art

1848 Athens
watercolour and sepia ink over graphite on white paper 11.1 x 36.8 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Athens: Hephaisteion from the Acropolis
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on tan paper 29 x 45 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Athens: Hephaisteion
watercolour, sepia ink and Chinese white over graphite on tan paper 29.5 x 50.2 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Between Khalkis and Castella
sepia ink and wash over graphite on blue paper 20.8 x 45.4 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Figures Resting in a Shady Glade, Vodena, Greece
pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil heightened with white on buff paper 17.5 x 25.5 cm

1848 Mount Olympus from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
watercolour 17.8 x 38.1 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1848 Sami
sepia ink, sepia and grey wash over graphite on cream paper 15.4 x 22.7 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 The Fortifications of Palaion Frourian, Corfu
watercolour on paper 35.2 cm diameter
National Galleries of Scotland, UK

1848 Thermopylae
sepia ink, ochre and blue wash on light tan paper.15.1 x 38.6 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

1848 Thermopylae, Greece
pen and brown and blue ink with watercolour over pencil, heightened with white on grey paper 17.5 x 28 cm

1848 Vathi, Ithaca
watercolour on paper 25.4 x 43.8 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, UK

1848 Zante
watercolour and ink 23.8 x 37.5 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, UK

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