Capo Sant'Angelo, Amalfi

c. 1885

Edward Lear

Artist, British, 1812 - 1888

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    overall: 36 x 54 cm (14 3/16 x 21 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.52.96

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sir Osbert Sitwell; (Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1968-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • Master Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond and tour, 1971-1972.

Inscriptions

upper left corner in brown ink: 37; upper left border in brown ink: One showed an iron coast; upper right border in brown ink: Capo Sant'Angelo, Amalfi (Italy); by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 5850 / Lear

Watermarks

AN 1872 (partial watermark)

Wikidata ID

Q64557521

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