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Michael Heyman, Isles of Boshen
A Ph.D. thesis on Edward Lear's nonsense. From the University of Glasgow, Faculty of Arts, Department of English Literature. |
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Nonsense Books (1904)
Nonsense books. By Edward Lear. With all the original illustrations: 4 v. on 1. front. (port.) illus. 19 cm., Boston, Little, Brown, and co., 1904. Full text of the four canonic books from the University of Michigan digital collection; page images an |
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Lear @Literary Encyclopedia
Biographical and critical sketch. |
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The Victorian Web: Edward Lear
Stresses Lear's relationship with William Holman Hunt, and the latter's influence on his painting technique. |
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Lear at the Tate Britain
29 landscape watercolours are online, as well as a short biography from the GroveART. |
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Portraits of Lear
At the National Portrait Gallery. Available online: the 1830s silhouette, Marstrand's 1840 portrait, a self-caricature (flying) and a photograph by Schier and Schoefft, circa 1863. There is also information (but non picture) about a McLean Melhuish a |
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The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear
A virtual exhibition of each of the full-color plates from [...] volume 1 of Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall, published between 1846 and 1850 and authored by John Edward Gray; and Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidœ, or |
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The Death of Edward Lear, by D. Barthelme
From Overnight to Many Distant Cities, New York: Penguin, 1983. |
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Edward Lear's Greece 1848-1868
March 3 - April 23, 2000. From the Gennadeion Collections Drawings and watercolors by Edward Lear on loan from the collection of the Gennadius Library, Athens, illustrate the writer-painter's journeys through a large area of present-day Greece. |
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A Lear Gazeteer
A geographical arrangement of Lear's humorous illustrated limericks from his 'Book of Nonsense' and 'More Nonsense.' |
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Three Paintings
Civita Castellana, 1844; Nuneham, 1860; The Pyramids Road, Ghizeh, 1873. |
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Edward Lear and the Art of Travel
Information on the Exhibition (September 20, 2000 - January 14, 2001) held at the Yale Center for British Art. A few (smallish) pictures are online. |
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John Gould and the bird illustrators
Information on Lear's relationship with Gould. |
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Edward Lear's fantastical flora
The Christian Science Monitor, Daily Online Newspaper, July 7, 1999.
On Lear's Botanies. |
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Houghton Library (Harvard)
Though it has a very important Lear collection, donated by Philip Hofer, the site provides very little information. |
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Yale British Art Center
"Alumnus curator donates works by Edward Lear to British Art Center." Annoucement of Donald Gallup's donation of his Lear collection. |
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Russian translation of some limericks
Some limericks in Alik Gotlib's Russian version. |
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Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, extracts on Suli
Also includes three very good pictures. Christan Herrmann's pages on Suli (Epirus, Greece) are highly informative. |
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San Felice, a Lear lithograph
Plate 2 from "Illustrated Excursions in Italy," Vol. II, 1847. At The University of Michigan Museum of Art (SI Art Image Browser). |
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Saving Lear's Parrots
An Exhibition of Edward Lear's Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots, held at The LSU Libraries · Hill Memorial Library, August 1-September 30, 1996. The page includes a reproduction of the Crimson-winged Parrakeet. |
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Edward Lear's Great Egret
Image at the Fulford Gallery web site. The site also includes a short biography and pictures of a stork and a pelican. |
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Three Lear Poems at MAXImpulse
Maxim Hurwicz has excellent original illustrations for three limericks: the Old Man of Cape Horn, the Old Man who said "Well!" and the Young Lady of Russia. |
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Edward Lear, el poeta del absurdo
A blog/site in Spanish. |
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Giggle, a Zine of Fun and Imagination
Includes The Owl and the Pussycat with an original color illustration. |
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