Ponte Sant'Antonio
| Reference: | S40659 |
| Author | Edward LEAR |
| Year: | 1846 ca. |
| Zone: | Ponte Sant'Antonio |
| Printed: | London |
| Measures: | 372 x 270 mm |
€130.00
| Reference: | S40659 |
| Author | Edward LEAR |
| Year: | 1846 ca. |
| Zone: | Ponte Sant'Antonio |
| Printed: | London |
| Measures: | 372 x 270 mm |
€130.00
Description
View of the city, taken from Illustrated Excursion in Italy, published to London by Thomas M’Lean between 1843 and 1846.
Lear was an indefatigable and courageous traveller and sketched first in Europe in the Mediterranean and then in Egypt and the Middle East. He wanted to, as he put it, “topographise all the journeyngs of my life”. To mention only a few, he published Views of Rome and its Environs in 1841, two series of Illustrated Excursions in Italy, Journal of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, Views in seven Ionian Islands and finally Journal of Landscape Painter in Corsica in 1870.
Lithograph, very good condition.
Edward LEAR (Holloway, Londra, 1812 - Sanremo, 1888)
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English painter, draughtsman, illustrator and writer. In the 1860s Lear described himself as ‘Greek Topographical Painter par excellence’, aspiring to the title of ‘Painter-Laureate and Boshproducing-Luminary forthwith’. This whimsical summary of his versatile activities as topographical draughtsman, oil painter, traveller, writer and illustrator of nonsense rhymes and stories is typical of Lear’s idiosyncratic literary style. It reflected his eccentric personality. He was epileptic and prone to fits of deep depression. In addition, owing to family misfortunes, he was brought up by his eldest sister Ann. The neglect of his mother, ill-health, weak sight and poverty all contributed to a lifelong sense of insecurity.
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Edward LEAR (Holloway, Londra, 1812 - Sanremo, 1888)
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English painter, draughtsman, illustrator and writer. In the 1860s Lear described himself as ‘Greek Topographical Painter par excellence’, aspiring to the title of ‘Painter-Laureate and Boshproducing-Luminary forthwith’. This whimsical summary of his versatile activities as topographical draughtsman, oil painter, traveller, writer and illustrator of nonsense rhymes and stories is typical of Lear’s idiosyncratic literary style. It reflected his eccentric personality. He was epileptic and prone to fits of deep depression. In addition, owing to family misfortunes, he was brought up by his eldest sister Ann. The neglect of his mother, ill-health, weak sight and poverty all contributed to a lifelong sense of insecurity.
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