Edward Lear, View of Cogoleto, Italy.
Inscribed and dated High wind & cold/Cogoletto [sic]/3.30pm/24 Dec 1864 (lower left), numbered (82) (lower right), and further inscribed elsewhere with colour notes. Pen and brown ink, and watercolour. 36.7 x 54.6cm; 14½ x 21½in
In November 1864 Edward Lear left England to spend the winter in the Riviera. He and his mansevant Giorgio Kokali then undertook a walk to Genoa, before returning to Nice on New Years Eve. Cogoleto is close to Genoa. According to his diaries, Lear drew two views of Cogoleto on 24th December, and the other was sold at Christie’s, King Street, British Art on Paper, 16 November 2006, lot 166.
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