Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Sold by Order of the Executors of the late SIR PHILIP SHELBOURNE

细节

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

A View of Cività Castellana

signed, inscribed and dated 'E. Lear Roma 1844'; oil on canvas
14 5/8 x 22 1/8in. (37.2 x 56.2cm.)

展览

London, The Fine Art Society Centenary Exhibition, June 1988

拍品专文

Cività Castellana is about thirty miles north of Rome, in the direction of Viterbo. Lear was living in Rome between 1837 and 1847, except for two trips back to England in 1841 and 1845-6. Turner made several sketches of the aqueduct which joins Nepi and Cività Castellana in 1820.