Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

1. Kinchinjunga

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1877
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 9 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (24.1 x 36.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
On View:: Not on view

2. Whitby

Creator:: John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836–1893
Date:: 1878
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 10 1/2 × 15 1/2 inches (26.7 × 39.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
On View:: Not on view

3. Whitby Harbor

Creator:: John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836–1893
Date:: 1878
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on board
Dimensions:: 11 × 17 1/8 inches (27.9 × 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
On View:: Not on view

4. Benares

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1873
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite and gouache on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 20 inches (34.3 x 50.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

5. Plains of Bengal, from above Siligoree

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1874
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Mount: 11 9/16 x 17 1/8 inches (29.4 x 43.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

6. Rocky Valley of Mosta, Malta, 1:30 p.m. (April 3, 1866)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1866
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, white gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches (24.1 x 35.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

7. Rocky Valley of Mosta, Malta, 2:15 p.m. (April 3, 1866)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1866
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 x 14 1/4 inches (24.4 x 36.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

8. Waterfall in a Desolate Landscape

Creator:: John Sell Cotman, 1782–1842
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches (21.9 x 34.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

9. Eastern Letter Writer

Creator:: Richard Dadd, 1817–1886
Date:: 1863
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with brown ink on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 19 1/8 × 14 3/8 inches (48.6 × 36.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

10. Classical City in Landscape

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: 1816
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash with pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Mount: 8 1/4 x 11 1/16 inches (21 x 28.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

11. Expulsion from Eden

Creator:: John Martin, 1789–1854
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash and graphite with pen and brown ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Mount: 7 11/16 x 10 1/4 inches (19.6 x 26 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

12. Spectrum Dioneum

Creator:: Print made by Henry Fuseli, 1741–1825
Date:: 1768
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with hand coloring in watercolor
Dimensions:: Frame: 34 1/2 × 30 3/4 × 1 1/4 inches (87.6 × 78.1 × 3.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

13. Observations on the River Wye and several parts of South Wales, &c. : relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the summer of the year 1770 / by William Gilpin ...

Observations on the River Wye and several parts of South Wales, &c. : relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the summer of the year 1770 / by William Gilpin ...

Creator:: Gilpin, William, 1724–1804
Date:: MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Physical Description:: xvi, 152 pages, [17] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

14. Lear in Sicily : twenty line drawings by Edward Lear illustrating a tour made in May-July 1847 in the company of John Joshua Proby with a coloured frontispiece signed by both the travellers and a full introduction by Granville Proby.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: 1938
Physical Description:: 24 pages, [21] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 x 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

15. Letters of Edward Lear, author of "The book of nonsense" : to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances, Countess Waldegrave / edited by Lady Strachey of Sutton Court ; illustrated.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: [approximately 1908?]
Physical Description:: xl, 327 pages, [21] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

16. The book of nonsense : to which is added more nonsense / by Edward Lear ; with all the original pictures and verses.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: [approximately 1916?]
Physical Description:: [224] pages : illustrations ; 20 x 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

17. Edward Lear's journals : a selection / edited by Herbert Van Thal.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: 1952
Physical Description:: 260 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

18. Views in the seven Ionian islands / by Edward Lear ; drawn from nature & on stone by Edward Lear.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: December 1st, 1863
Physical Description:: [24] leaves, [1], 20 leaves of plates : illustrations. ; 51 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

19. Indian Journal : watercolours and extracts from the diary of Edward Lear (1973-1875) / edited by Ray Murphy.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 9-240 pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

20. Illustrated excursions in Italy / by Edward Lear.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: MDCCCXLVI [1846]
Physical Description:: xii, 144 pages, [1], 30 leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 39 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

21. Teapots and quails : and other new nonsenses / by Edward Lear ; edited and introduced by Angus Davidson and Philip Hofer.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: 1953
Physical Description:: 63, [1] pages : illustrations. ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

22. Illustrations of the Bible / designed and engraved by John Martin.

Creator:: Martin, John, 1789–1854
Date:: MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:: [24] leaves, [20] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 38 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

23. The giant crab, and other tales from old India / retold by W.H.D. Rouse ; and illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.

Creator:: Rouse, W. H. D. (William Henry Denham), 1863–1950
Date:: 1973
Physical Description:: [8],109, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

24. The complete limerick book : the origin, history and achievements of the limerick, with about 350 selected examples / by Langford Reed ; illustrated by H.M. Bateman.

Creator:: Reed, Langford, 1889–1954
Date:: 1924
Physical Description:: [4], viii, [4], 13-147 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

25. Caricature history of the Georges, or, Annals of the House of Hanover : compiled from squibs, broadsides, window pictures, lampoons, and pictorial caricatures of the time / by Thomas Wright, M.A., F.S.A. ; with nearly four hundred illustrations on steel and wood.

Creator:: Wright, Thomas, 1810–1877
Date:: 1876
Physical Description:: xiii, [3], 639 pages, [13] leaves of plates : some color illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

26. The Paradise lost of Milton / with illustrations, designed and engraved by John Martin.

Creator:: Milton, John, 1608–1674
Date:: MDCCCXXVII [1827]
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 37 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

27. The history of signboards : from the earliest times to the present day / by Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten ; with one hundred illustrations in facsimile by J. Larwood.

Creator:: Larwood, Jacob, 1827–1918
Date:: 1884
Physical Description:: x, 536 pages, 19 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

28. The life of George Cruikshank : in two epochs / by Blanchard Jerrold.

Creator:: Jerrold, Blanchard, 1826–1884
Date:: 1898
Physical Description:: xvi, 392 pages, [19] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsims. ; 19 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

29. The Maclise portrait gallery of illustrious literary characters : with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical, and anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century / by William Bates, B.A.

Creator:: Bates, William, -1884
Date:: 1898
Physical Description:: xv, 540 pages, [85] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

30. My line of life / Heath Robinson.

Creator:: Robinson, W. Heath (William Heath), 1872–1944
Date:: 1974
Physical Description:: [9], 198 pages, [16] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

31. How to make a garden grow / by Heath Robinson and K.R.G. Browne.

Creator:: Robinson, W. Heath (William Heath), 1872–1944
Date:: [1938]
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 104 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

32. Heath Robinson : artist and comic genius / by John Lewis ; introduction by Nicolas Bentley.

Creator:: Lewis, John, 1912–1996
Date:: 1973
Physical Description:: 223, [1] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

33. The tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the ... : a poem.

Creator:: Combe, William, 1742–1823
Date:: [1855]
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

34. The life and works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., commonly called "Wright of Derby" / by William Bemrose ... ; with a preface by Cosmo Monkhouse ; illustrated with two etchings by Mr. F. Seymour Haden, and other plates and woodcuts.

Creator:: Bemrose, William, 1831–1908
Date:: 1885
Physical Description:: x, 128 pages, [7] unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, genealogical table ; 40 cm
Collection:: Reference Library
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

35. English society / sketched by George Du Maurier.

Creator:: Du Maurier, Gerald, Sir, 1873–1934
Date:: 1897
Physical Description:: [4], 9, [3] pages, [90] leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 24 x 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

36. Birket Foster's pictures of English landscape : (engraved by the brothers Dalziel) : with pictures in words / by Thomas Taylor.

Creator:: Taylor, Tom, 1817–1880
Date:: 1863
Physical Description:: [6], XXX, [1] leaves, 30 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

37. Journal of a landscape painter in Corsica / by Edward Lear.

Creator:: Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Date:: 1870
Physical Description:: xvi, 272 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

38. Edward Lear, 1812-1888 : an exhibition of oil paintings, water-colours and drawings, books and prints, manuscripts, photographs and records.

Creator:: Arts Council of Great Britain
Date:: 1958
Physical Description:: 64 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

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1. Kinchinjunga

2. Whitby

3. Whitby Harbor

4. Benares

5. Plains of Bengal, from above Siligoree

6. Rocky Valley of Mosta, Malta, 1:30 p.m. (April 3, 1866)

7. Rocky Valley of Mosta, Malta, 2:15 p.m. (April 3, 1866)

8. Waterfall in a Desolate Landscape

9. Eastern Letter Writer

10. Classical City in Landscape

11. Expulsion from Eden

12. Spectrum Dioneum

13. Observations on the River Wye and several parts of South Wales, &c. : relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the summer of the year 1770 / by William Gilpin ...

14. Lear in Sicily : twenty line drawings by Edward Lear illustrating a tour made in May-July 1847 in the company of John Joshua Proby with a coloured frontispiece signed by both the travellers and a full introduction by Granville Proby.

15. Letters of Edward Lear, author of "The book of nonsense" : to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances, Countess Waldegrave / edited by Lady Strachey of Sutton Court ; illustrated.

16. The book of nonsense : to which is added more nonsense / by Edward Lear ; with all the original pictures and verses.

17. Edward Lear's journals : a selection / edited by Herbert Van Thal.

18. Views in the seven Ionian islands / by Edward Lear ; drawn from nature & on stone by Edward Lear.

19. Indian Journal : watercolours and extracts from the diary of Edward Lear (1973-1875) / edited by Ray Murphy.

20. Illustrated excursions in Italy / by Edward Lear.

21. Teapots and quails : and other new nonsenses / by Edward Lear ; edited and introduced by Angus Davidson and Philip Hofer.

22. Illustrations of the Bible / designed and engraved by John Martin.

23. The giant crab, and other tales from old India / retold by W.H.D. Rouse ; and illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.

24. The complete limerick book : the origin, history and achievements of the limerick, with about 350 selected examples / by Langford Reed ; illustrated by H.M. Bateman.

25. Caricature history of the Georges, or, Annals of the House of Hanover : compiled from squibs, broadsides, window pictures, lampoons, and pictorial caricatures of the time / by Thomas Wright, M.A., F.S.A. ; with nearly four hundred illustrations on steel and wood.

26. The Paradise lost of Milton / with illustrations, designed and engraved by John Martin.

27. The history of signboards : from the earliest times to the present day / by Jacob Larwood and John Camden Hotten ; with one hundred illustrations in facsimile by J. Larwood.

28. The life of George Cruikshank : in two epochs / by Blanchard Jerrold.

29. The Maclise portrait gallery of illustrious literary characters : with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical, and anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century / by William Bates, B.A.

30. My line of life / Heath Robinson.

31. How to make a garden grow / by Heath Robinson and K.R.G. Browne.

32. Heath Robinson : artist and comic genius / by John Lewis ; introduction by Nicolas Bentley.

33. The tour of Doctor Syntax, in search of the ... : a poem.

34. The life and works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., commonly called "Wright of Derby" / by William Bemrose ... ; with a preface by Cosmo Monkhouse ; illustrated with two etchings by Mr. F. Seymour Haden, and other plates and woodcuts.

35. English society / sketched by George Du Maurier.

36. Birket Foster's pictures of English landscape : (engraved by the brothers Dalziel) : with pictures in words / by Thomas Taylor.

37. Journal of a landscape painter in Corsica / by Edward Lear.

38. Edward Lear, 1812-1888 : an exhibition of oil paintings, water-colours and drawings, books and prints, manuscripts, photographs and records.