Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) - Civita D'antino, 1844 - Mar 25, 2015 | Dreweatts Donnington Priory In United Kingdom
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Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) - Civita d'Antino, 1844

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Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) - Civita d'Antino, 1844
Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) - Civita d'Antino, 1844
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Black chalk, pencil, heightened with white, on light blue paper Signed and dated 1844 lower right, inscribed Civita d'Antino lower left 16.5 x 28.5 cm. (6 1/2 x 11 1/4 in) Unframed Provenance:John Scandrett Harford (1787-1866); thence by descent to the present owner.Engraved: Edward Lear, Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 1846, plate 20 "Civita d'Antonio, a wild and scattered place, has a poetical and sullen grandeur in its aspect, as if it were altogether out of the world of life: no other dwellings are in sight and its own bear the stamp of desolate and melancholy antiquity." [ op. cit., 1846, p.74]
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Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) - Civita d'Antino, 1844

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