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Edward Lear, Monte Generoso (1878)
Edward Lear, Monte Generoso. Pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil; inscribed both in pen and brown ink and pencil lower left: Monte Generoso / July 24. 1878 / 5 pm / & Aug 5 5.30. Aug 7. – 4.5 … Continue reading
Edward Lear, A View of the Roman Campagna with Travellers Passing a Ruined Brick Tomb, an Aqueduct in the Distance (1841)
Edward Lear, A View of the Roman Campagna with Travellers Passing a Ruined Brick Tomb, an Aqueduct in the Distance. Signed and dated lower left: E. Lear/ 1841. Oil on canvas. 9 by 39.7 cm.; 7 1/2 by 15 5/8 in. … Continue reading
Edward Lear, Rome, A View of the Forum with the Temple of Venus (1841)
Edward Lear, Rome, A View of the Forum with the Temple of Venus. Signed and dated lower left: 13 / E. Lear f. 1841. Oil on canvas. 27.3 by 37.5 cm.; 10 3/4 by 14 3/4 in. Provenance Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe … Continue reading
Edward Lear, A View of the Roman Campagna, a Villa and Aqueduct in the Distance
Edward Lear, A View of the Roman Campagna, a Villa and Aqueduct in the Distance. Signed lower left: E. Lear. Inscribed with inventory number lower right: 184 . Oil on canvas. 19 by 39.7 cm.; 7 1/2 by 15 5/8 … Continue reading
Edward Lear, Rome, A View of the Forum from a Terrace (1841)
Edward Lear, Rome, A View of the Forum from a Terrace. Signed and dated lower right: 14 / E. Lear f. 1841. Oil on canvas. 27.3 by 37.4 cm.; 10 3/4 by 14 3/4 in. Provenance Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe … Continue reading
Edward Lear, From S. Giov: Laterano, Roma (1839)
Edward Lear, From S. Giovanni in Laterano, 1839. Signed and dated Edward Lear. del. 1839. lower left and inscribed with the title lower right. Pencil heightened with white on buff paper. 7 5/8 by 16 1/2 in. 19.4 by 41.9 cm. … Continue reading
Edward Lear, View of the Ponte Rotto, Rome (1839)
Edward Lear, View of the Ponte Rotto, Rome. Pencil, heightened with white; inscribed, signed and dated, lower right: Ponte Rotto Roma. / Edward Lear.del. 1839. Provenance Lord Stanley of Alderley, thence by descent; H.D. Lyon, London; with Eugene Thaw, New York, where acquired in 1976 … Continue reading
Edward Lear, Goats in the Campagna, near Rome (1839)
Edward Lear, Goats in the Campagna, near Rome. Black chalk, heightened with white; signed lower right: Edward Lear del. / Roma. 1839 . Sotheby’s.
Edward Lear, Venice, looking towards San Giorgio Maggiore
Edward Lear, Venice, looking towards San Giorgio Maggiore. Inscribed, dated and numbered ’18 – 20. Novr 1865. 3.30-4.30.PM./(43)’ (lower right). Pen, ink and watercolour over traces of pencil, 30 x 49.5cm (11 13/16 x 19 1/2in). Provenance Private collection, UK. Got a gondola for … Continue reading
Edward Lear, Italian Peasant (1860)
Edward Lear, An Italian peasant. Inscribed and dated ‘Rome, April 17. 1860’. Pen and ink and pencil 10.5 x 16 cm. (4 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.) Bonhams.