Edward Lear, Santa Maria di Polsi (1847)

Posted on July 6, 2021 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Santa Maria di Polsi.
Pencil, pen and ink with wash, heightened with white. 497 × 343 mm. (19 ⅝ × 13 ½ in.). Signed, inscribed and dated: “8 August 1847”.

Lear travelled in Calabria in 1847. The lithograph of Santa Maria di Polsi in his Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria and the Kingdom of Naples, London, 1852, is based on this drawing.

James Mackinnon.

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