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

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