Corfu and the Ionian Islands
- April–May 1848: Corfu and three of the other Ionian Islands
- November 1855–June 1856: Corfu
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December 1857–March 1858: Corfu
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June–August 1858: Corfu
- April–May 1862: Corfu
- November 1862–April 1863: Corfu
- April–June 1863: The Ionian Islands
- January–April 1864: Corfu
- 1866, 1877: Corfu
From his travels between 1848 and 1863 Lear published twenty lithographs in his Views in the Seven Ionian Islands (London: privately printed, 1863).
A selection of Lear’s letters and drawings from 1855, and of his diary entries from 1858, relating to Corfu are published in Edward Lear: The Corfu Years. Edited by Philip Sherrard. (Athens: Denise Harvey & Co, 1988).
Vlicho Bay, Leukada, 17 April 1863.
November 1855–June 1856: Corfu
Numbered series 1-50, with a few unnumbered studies.
December 1857–March 1858: Corfu
June–August 1858: Corfu
Number of sketches unknown (fewer than 50).
![Studies of sheep, Ascension [Análipsi, Corfu], 10 May 1856. Houghton Library.](/____impro/1/onewebmedia/SheepHoughton___serialized1.jpg?etag=%221b5db8-63c58567%22&sourceContentType=image%2Fjpeg&ignoreAspectRatio&resize=2000,1419&quality=85 "Studies of sheep, Ascension [Análipsi, Corfu], 10 May 1856. Houghton Library.")
Studies of sheep, Ascension [Análipsi, Corfu], 10 May 1856. Houghton Library.
At Análipsi 12 February 1858. British Museum.
April–May 1862: Corfu
Numbered series 1–102.
November 1862–April 1863
Unnumbered series.
Palaiokastriza, Corfu, 21 April 1862. Rhode Island School of Design.
April–June 1863: The Ionian Islands
Numbered series 1– 215:
Paxos: 5–11 April
Leucada: 11–25 April
Ithaca: 26 April–2 May
Cephalonia: 2–17 May
Kythera: 18–25 May
Zakynthos: 26 May–2 June.
Prasses, Paxos, sunset 6 April 1863. Gennadius Library.
January–April 1864: Corfu
Number of sketches unknown (fewer than 50).
Lear wrote in his diary on Sunday 24 July 1864:
‘It comes over me at times that the “old times,[”] are all gone: ― no more Corfu ― no more Greece: no more light’.
He was, however, to make brief visits in 1866 and 1877.
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Corfu, 17 February and 18 March 1864.
Scottish National Gallery.
1866 and 1877: Corfu
April 1866: numbered series (? 27 sketches)
In his Diary for
September 1877: a few unnumbered sketches
Potamos Flats, Corfu, 20 April 1866. Gennadius Library.
Lear signs off in Greek.
Autograph letter. Glamorgan Archives.