Physical description; 216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. Contents; Edward Lear / Sir Steven Runciman -- From the sublime to the ridiculous / Jeremy Maas -- Lear on art -- The plates -- The catalogue -- Early years -- Natural history -- Early landscape (1834-1848) -- Lear's travels (1848-1888) -- Studio watercolours -- Lear and Tennyson -- Oil paintings -- Illustrated travel books -- Nonsense -- The pelican -- Later memorabilia. Subjects; Lear, Edward, -- (1812-1888) -- Catalogs. Lear, Edward, -- (1812-1888) -- Criticism and interpretation. Genres; Catalogs. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Dr Vivien Noakes, the leading expert on Lear's life and work, has rewritten her classic biography. She was curator of the major exhibition 'Edward Lear, 1812-1888' at the Royal Academy, London and the National Academy of Design, New York. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and previously lecturer at Somerville College, Oxford, her publications include The Painter Edward Lear and Edward Lear: The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense.
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pbk. Condition: Used- Good. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1985. Used- Good. Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1985, Catalogue published in association with Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, with an introduction by Sir Steven Runciman and an essay by Jeremy Maas, 216 pp., red cover with black and gilt decoration, slight crease to spine, slight bend to bottom right hand corner of cover. Seller Inventory # 100195
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