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1884/1885

Edward Lear

Artist, British, 1812 - 1888

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black and gray wash with white gouache on card

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 9.5 x 14.6 cm (3 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2010.93.30


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Tennyson family (part of an album of 200 drawings illustrating Tennyson poems; this one no. 161); Tennyson Research Centre, Lincoln, until 1980. (Thos. Agnew and Sons, London, 1980, the album broken up and the drawings dispersed); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1983; gift to NGA, 2010.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1988

  • Pitman, Ruth. Edward Lear's Tennyson. Manchester, 1988: 206.

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 170 (color).

Inscriptions

signed by artist at lower right in gray ink: EL (in monogram); by artist at lower left in gray ink: Taggia

Wikidata ID

Q64557552


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