Lot 133
Lear, Edward. Original Drawing and Limerick
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Lear, Edward. Original Drawing and Limerick
(London, 1861). Pen and ink drawing on blue laid paper, with three-line ink manuscript limerick below image, by Lear. Approximately 5 1/2 x 8 in. (140 x 203 mm). In frame, 13 1/4 x 17 1/4 in. (336 x 438 mm).
"There was an Old Man who said, 'How,--shall I flee from this horrible Cow I will sit on this stile, and continue to smile, which may soften the heart of that Cow."
An original nonsense drawing and limerick by Edward Lear. A version of this drawing was published in the 1861 third edition of A Book of Nonsense (p. 52). Justin Schiller records six other versions of this drawing, three in the Morgan Library (Duncan, Mead, and Pickering copies), Private collection (Peto copy), Houghton Library at Harvard, and the Houghton copy.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.
Provenance
Chris Beetles Limited, London, Exhibited in "The Illustrators", November 29-December 15, 1989, No. 179 (his exhibition label on back of frame)
Christie's, London, 1996
Private Collection
Swann Galleries, New York, Illustration Art, June 9, 2022, Lot 32
From the collection of Justin G. Schiller
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