Goats Resting above a River Gorge (Narni, Italy), 1884/1885

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series Title

Tennyson Album

Medium

gray wash on card

Dimensions

sheet: 9.6 x 14.6 cm (3 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2010.93.34

Artists / Makers

Edward Lear (artist) British, 1812 - 1888

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, verso in graphite: J7241 / 28

Provenance

Tennyson family (part of an album of 200 drawings illustrating Tennyson poems; this one no. 28); 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, 1984; gift to NGA, 2010.

Associated Names

McCrindle, Joseph F.

Bibliography

1988: Pitman, Ruth. Edward Lear's Tennyson. Manchester, 1988: 198.

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).