A Feather and the Artist's Business Card
A Feather and the Artist's Business Card
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A Feather and the Artist's Business CardSigned on the business card: E. Lear./38 Upper North Place/Grays' Inn RoadWatercolour and pencil heightened with bodycolour on Whatman paper dated 182917.1 by 11.3 cm., 6 ¾ by 4 ¼ in.Provenance:By descent in the family of the owner38 Upper North Place, Gray's Inn Road was Lear's first London residence which he share with his sister Ann probably from late 1827. In April 1832 Lear moved to 61 Albany St, Regent's Park where he remained until early 1834 (see Charles Nugent, Edward Lear - the Landscape Artist, 2009, Appendix E, p. 233).){kind=link}
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
A Feather and the Artist's Business Card
Signed on the business card: E. Lear./38 Upper North Place/Grays' Inn Road
Watercolour and pencil heightened with bodycolour on Whatman paper dated 1829
17.1 by 11.3 cm., 6 ¾ by 4 ¼ in.
Provenance:
By descent in the family of the owner
38 Upper North Place, Gray's Inn Road was Lear's first London residence which he share with his sister Ann probably from late 1827. In April 1832 Lear moved to 61 Albany St, Regent's Park where he remained until early 1834 (see Charles Nugent, Edward Lear - the Landscape Artist, 2009, Appendix E, p. 233).