Tag Archives: Italy

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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Edward Lear, Patti (1847)

Posted on February 12, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Patti. Inscribed and dated ‘Patti 4 July 1847’ and numbered 2/2, and further inscribed with notes throughout, pencil and pen and ink. 30cm x 46cm (11.75in x 17.75in). Patti, which is close to Messina, is most known for … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Walls of Pavia (1841)

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Walls of Pavia. Signed and dated ‘Edw. Lear 11 May 1841’ and inscribed ‘Walls of Pavia’, watercolour.  6.5cm x 13.5cm (2.75in x 5.25in). Provenance Child’s Gallery, Boston Apart from two visits to England, Lear stayed in Italy between … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, Sepolcro di Terone, Sicily (1847)

Posted on January 31, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Sepolcro di Terone, Sicily, Italy. Inscribed, dated and numbered ‘Sepolero di Terone Gigenti 29 May 1847 (63)’ and further inscribed with notes throughout, pencil, pen and ink. 8.25cm x 25.5cm (3.25in x 10.25in). Leaving Rome in April 1847, … Continue reading →

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Edward Lear, View of Mount Modino, near Abetone (1883)

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Edward Lear, View of Mount Modino, near Abetone, Tuscany. Watercolour and brown ink. Titled and dated ’18 “20” August 1883′ (lower right). 30 x 54cm (11¾ x 21¼ in.) Dreweatts.

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Edward Lear, Sacro Monte di Varese (1879)

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Marco Graziosi

Edward Lear, Sacro Monte di Varese. Black chalk, pen and brown ink, 275×495 mm. On the recto, lower left, pen and brown ink: “Sacromonte 8. Sept. 1879” Exhibited Edward Lear (1812 – 1888), Il viaggio come avventura estetica, vedute d’Italia, … Continue reading →

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