Tag Archives: Italy

Edward Lear, One Tall Agave, Varenna

Posted on September 11, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, One Tall Agave, Varenna, Lake of Lecco (Bellagio). Illustration to Tennysaon’s “The Daisy.” Signed with the monogram and inscribed ‘Varenna’, further inscribed with the title under the mount and numbered ‘175’, grisaille 9.5cm x 14cm (3.75in x 5.5in) … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Desenzano

Posted on July 13, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Desenzano. Pen, ink and wash. 4 x 12.2cm. MutualArt.

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Edward Lear, Mont Blanc (1863)

Posted on July 9, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Mont Blanc. Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on blue paper. 6 ½ x 10 1⁄8 in. (16.5 x 25.9 cm.) MutualArt.

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Edward Lear, Mont Blanc (1863)

Posted on June 14, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Mont Blanc. Signed with monogram and dated ‘1863’ (lower right). Ppencil, watercolour and bodycolour on blue paper. 6 ½ x 10 1⁄8 in. (16.5 x 25.9 cm.) Provenance Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 15 November 1983, lot 261. with … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Antrodoco (1843)

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Antrodoco, Italy. Inscribed and dated August 14 1843, pen and ink and watercolour. 31cm x 45cm (12in x 17.75in) Provenance David Galleries, New York. This watercolour relates to a lithograph in Lear’s Illustrated Excursions in Italy published in … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Bordighera (1864)

Posted on May 5, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Bordighera, Italy. Inscribed and dated 1864, extensively annotated, pen and ink and coloured wash. 22cm x 33cm (8.5in x 13in) Lear would have arrived in Bordighera, on the French-Italian border, in December 1864, returning from his walking tour … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Two Drawings

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, A Moutainous Landscape with Figures Seated by a Shrine, & Sketch of a Tomb with Classical Frieze. Signed and dated E. Lear 15 March / 1848 lower right (i). Each pen and brown ink. Each 9.5 x 12cm; … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, St John Lateran and the Claudian Aqueduct, Rome

Posted on March 8, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, St John Lateran and the Claudian Aqueduct, Rome. Signed with monogram (lower right). Watercolour over traces of pencil, heightened with white. 10.4 x 20.3cm (4 1/8 x 8in). Provenance Collection of Lady Peyton. The Hon. Dorothy Gibbs and … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, View of Florence (1861)

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, View of Florence. Inscribed and dated ‘June 14/ (9)’ (lower left). Pen, ink and watercolour over pencil. 33.2 x 55cm (13 1/16 x 21 5/8in). Painted in 1861. Provenance With Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London where purchased … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Venice and Santa Maria della Salute (1865)

Posted on February 16, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Venice and Santa Maria della Salute. Inscribed, dated and numbered ‘Venice 11 Nov (2)’, pen and ink and watercolour. 11.5cm x 16.5cm (4.5in x 6.5in) Provenance Agnew’s, no. 29488 After a first visit to Venice in 1857, Lear … Continue reading →

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