The Walls of Pavia, Italy
The Walls of Pavia, Italy
The Walls of Pavia, ItalySigned lower right: Edw.d Lear/11 May/1841 and inscribed lower left: Walls of PaviaWatercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour on grey-green paper7.3 by 15.6 cm., 2 ¾ by 6 in.Provenance:With Childs Gallery, Boston;The Estate of Mary Ann Streeter, Boston, USALear was in Rome from late 1837 until the Spring of 1841 when he returned to England for a nine month visit. This was evidently drawn in England from an earlier sketch, and the precise inscription and signature suggests presumably as a gift for a friend or patron. He returned to Rome in December 1841.){kind=link}
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
The Walls of Pavia, Italy
Signed lower right: Edw.d Lear/11 May/1841 and inscribed lower left: Walls of Pavia
Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour on grey-green paper
7.3 by 15.6 cm., 2 ¾ by 6 in.
Provenance:
With Childs Gallery, Boston;
The Estate of Mary Ann Streeter, Boston, USA
Lear was in Rome from late 1837 until the Spring of 1841 when he returned to England for a nine month visit. This was evidently drawn in England from an earlier sketch, and the precise inscription and signature suggests presumably as a gift for a friend or patron. He returned to Rome in December 1841.