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Edward Lear

Associated Names
Edward Lear

Artist, British, 1812 - 1888

The image shows a wide expanse of water leading to a distant landscape. The horizon line is high in the image, just below mountain peaks. The mountain range transitions from water to sky. The brushstrokes are soft and mimic natural contours. The color palette is primarily shades of gray with some lighter areas. Buildings are seen nestled into the mountains. The overall atmosphere is calm with minimal color contrast.

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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 Number

    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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