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EDWARD LEAR | Girgente, Sicily
估價
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
已售出
7,500 GBP
招標截止
描述
- Lear
- Girgente, Sicily
- Pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil;inscribed lower left with extensive colour notes and: Girgenti Friday (28th) May 1847; numbered lower right: 59
- 292 by 497 mm.
來源
With J. Leger & Son, London, by 1950;
Katharine Buxton;
by descent to the present owner
Katharine Buxton;
by descent to the present owner
拍品資料及來源
Lear made this drawing on his second trip to Sicily in the early summer of 1847, a tour that he carried out with John Proby, heir to the Earldom of Carysfort. Lear was impressed by Girgente, writing to his sister Ann: 'Nothing on earth can be so beautiful as Girgente with its 6 temples - I speak of the old town and the flowers and birds which are beyond imagination lovely'.1
1. M. Montgomery, Lear's Italy, London 2005, p. 110
1. M. Montgomery, Lear's Italy, London 2005, p. 110