Category: News
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Lear’s 1849 travels with Lushington in the Peloponnese and beyond
Stephen Duckworth, one of the advisors to our society, has produced an excellent almost complete dated itinerary of this trip. Edward Lear was accompanied on this trip with his friend Frank Lushington to the Peloponnese in 1849 which we can share here for the members of our society. Please click here to read.
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Wessex Guild of Bookbinders
Sue Durrant of The Wessex Guild of Bookbinders got in touch with me at The Lear Society and I am having several volumes rebound, I thought it would be interesting to see what Keith Holdaway has produced for The Owl and The Pussycat. Keith Holdaway: ‘The book is covered in black Morocco leather with on-lays of…
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Rowena Fowler on Lear’s “Topography of Greece”
With the help of Stephen Duckworth, Rowena Fowler has just added to her website a detailed page titled ‘Lear’s Projected Topography of Greece’. Of all Edward Lear’s extensive travels, he retained a special affection for Greece, and a feeling that his own vision as a topographical artist might suit the Greek landscape. “I cannot but…
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Michael Roberts donates Lear inspired illustrations
Michael Roberts, an artist from Yorkshire, got in touch with the society as he was inspired many years ago having read as he said “the quirky poetry of Lear”. In his own quirky way he has reproduced several of Lear’s best known pieces. The illustrated one and five others have been donated to the excellent…
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Moment to Moment – Exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
UPCOMING: 09.09.2022–13.11.2022 Ikon’s exhibition is the first solely devoted to Lear’s sketches and landscape drawings from across the entire span of his career. This show examines the artist’s fascination with the creative process and is especially concerned with how his work came into being – through experimental methods of composition, successive drafts, doodlings and written marginalia.…
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Edward Lear online exhibition of drawings & watercolours
The first selling exhibition dedicated to Lear’s pictures for at least 30 years is under way at St James’s gallery Guy Peppiatt Fine Art. The online-only show, which runs until April 9, includes more than 30 drawings and watercolours covering his artistic career. Please click on the first link below to view the exhibition and the…
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The Quangle Wangle’s Back!
The Quangle Wangle’s Back! A great new rhyming picture book, illustrated in the style of Edward Lear, containing his original classic nonsense poem ‘The Quangle Wangle’s hat”. Author Rob Hann’s updated sequel “The Quangle Wangle’s Back! and a brief biography of the great man to entertain, educate and inform children and adults alike. Order from…
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How Edward Lear’s artistic genius led to the Owl and the Pussycat
Edward Lear may “fairly be accounted one of the greatest of all natural history painters” writes David Attenborough in his forward to The Natural History of Edward Lear, a new book containing unseen works showing the nonsense poet’s prowess as a natural history painter. Robert McCracken Peck, author of the new publication is curator of art and…
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The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear
Free public lecture Robert McCracken Peck, Curator of Art and Artifacts, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Edward Lear (1812–1888), best known for The Owl and the Pussycat and other nonsense poetry, was also an accomplished painter of birds, mammals, reptiles, and landscapes, and an adventurous world traveler. His paintings of parrots, macaws, toucans, owls, and other…
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The Life of a Wanderer appears on the latest episode of the Slightly Foxed podcast…
In the latest episode of the Slightly Foxed podcast, the Editors are joined at the table by eminent biographer Adam Sisman to discuss the delicate business of delving into the lives of others – warts and all or, sometimes, all warts no all, and the actor Nigel Anthony lends his voice to Edward Lear’s surreal…
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