Tag Archives: Italy

Edward Lear, View Near Monte Rotondo (1840)

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

  Edward Lear, View Near Monte Rotondo, Italy. Pencil, heightened with stump and white on blue paper; signed lower right: Edward Lear del. and inscribed lower left: near Monte Rotondo. May 26.1840. 150 by 350 mm. This fine drawing was once owned … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, The Amphitheatre, Taormina (1842)

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

  Edward Lear, The Amphitheatre, Taormina, Sicily. Pencil and grey wash, heightened with white, on grey paper; inscribed lower left: Taormina; signed lower right: Edward Lear del.1842. 165 by 250 mm. Lear spent ten weeks exploring Sicily in the spring of 1842. … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

  Edward Lear, Santa Maria della Salute from across the Bacino, Venice. Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour; signed with monogram lower left. 115 by 175 mm. The present watercolour dates from Lear’s second trip to Venice in November 1865. … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Figures on Road, Tivoli Beyond (1839)

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

  Edward Lear, Figures on the Road, Tivoli Beyond. Pencil, heightened with white and touches of brown wash, on grey paper; signed lower right: Edward Lear / 1839; and inscribed lower left: Tivoli. 240 by 340 mm. In a letter to his … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, View of Tivoli

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, View of Tivoli. Indistinctly inscribed and dated ‘Tivoli May 7 …183.'(lower left). Pencil and grey wash heightened with white on light grey paper. 7 1/8 x 10 in. (18.2 x 25.4 cm.). With financial backing from Lord Derby, … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Perugia, 7 September 1883

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Perugia, Italy. Pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil; inscribed lower right: near / Perugia / 7. September 1883 / 7.AM.; further inscribed with artist’s notes. 325 by 505 mm. Lear drew this large pen and ink study during … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Letters in Italian 2: 22 March 1845 to A.M. Ricci

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

This is the second surviving letter Edward Lear wrote to Angelo Maria Ricci, again mentioning a mysterious project to illustrate the seventh book of the Aeneid, which was never completed, and which ― from the tone of the letter ― Lear himself seems … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear’s Letters in Italian 1: 18 December 1844 to A.M. Ricci

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear wrote at least two letters to Angelo Maria Ricci, discussing a project of his I had never read about. They are both at Biblioteca comunale di Rieti, Fondo Ricci, F=1=16/212 (many thanks to Ms Carla Moroni for supplying … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, View of Modica

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Marco Graziosi

View of Modica, Sicily. Inscribed and dated ‘Modica/8 June 1867’ (centre right) and with colour notes throughout. Pencil and pen and brown ink. 12 x 18 in. (30.4 x 45.7 cm.) Christie’s.

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Edward Lear, Taormina

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Taormina, Sicily. Nnumbered ‘158 [crossed out] 165’ (lower left, overmounted) and ‘(165)’ (lower right, overmounted) and further inscribed with colour notes pencil, pen and brown ink and blue and ochre wash on paper. 13 7/8 x 19¾ in. … Continue reading →

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