Edward Lear
1812-1888
View of Prinilla
1856
11 3/8 x 19 5/8 inches (288 x 497 mm)
Pen and brown ink, watercolor, over pencil, on wove paper.
1977.22
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
Notes
Watermark: fragment with letters "JH".
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed and dated by the artist in pen and brown ink at lower left, "Prinilla / 25. June. 1856. / Prinari"; in pencil at lower left, "Prinilla / 25 June 1856 / Prinari". Various notations mostly for color, in pen and brown ink from top to bottom; "lilac, corn; pale yellow; Prinari; gray rox; gy rox; all dark / very red & yellow greens".
Associated names
Spector, Stephen, 1946-, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 272.
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Century Drawings
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