Name: EDWARD LEAR (LONDON 1812-1888 SAN REMO)
Brand: Finale Ligure, Gulf of Genoa, Italy
Price: 13000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

EDWARD LEAR (LONDON 1812-1888 SAN REMO)
Finale Ligure, Gulf of Genoa, Italy
signed with monogram (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gum arabic on buff paper
7 x 10³⁄₄ in. (17.8 x 27.3 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1977, lot 90.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1990, lot 120.

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Lear took a walking tour from Nice to Genoa and back in December 1864, accompanied by his servant Giorgio. There is a drawing of Finale taken from a very similar viewpoint in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, and dated 16 & 17 December 1864, 4.30pm & 11am. Lear returned to the subject at least twice more - in pen in 1874 and in grey and black wash for Tennyson's Poems in 1885 (no. 64).