Edward Lear

Signed and dated l.lr.: Edward Lear del./1838, pencil and black chalk heightened with white on green paper
24.7 x 40.5 cm.; 9 ¾ x 16 inches

Provenance
Private collection, U.K. until 2025

Lear set out for Italy in the summer of 1837. For most of the next ten years the artist wintered in Rome and toured other parts of Italy during the summer. This delicately drawn sheet shows the influence of James Duffield Harding. The carefully drawn trees are probably in the Roman Campagna.