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Panoramic View of Tivoli with a Group of Figures

Edward Lear
1812-1888

Panoramic View of Tivoli with a Group of Figures

1839
11 7/16 x 17 3/8 inches (291 x 443 mm)
Black chalk with smudging, white opaque watercolor over red chalk, on light blue altered to gray paper.
1972.12

Thaw Collection.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Unused drawing executed in connection with "Views in Rome and its Environs", London, 1841, the first of Lear's travel books.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed, signed, and dated by the artist in black chalk; at lower left, "Tivoli"; at lower right, "Edward Lear del. / 1839".
Associated names
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 230, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 113, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 171-172.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department