Edward Lear
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Edward Lear
1812-1888
View of the Forest of Valdoniello, Corsica
Watercolor, with whiteopaque watercolor, over graphitee, including twelve vertical equally spaced ruled lines, on gray wove paper mounted by the artist on pasteboard.
11 5/8 x 18 1/4 inches (295 x 464 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Salomon.
1977.19
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Watermark: none visible through pasteboard mount.
Inscription:
Signed at lower left in brush and black ink with monogram.
Inscribed (by the artist?), on mount, in pen and black ink, [FOR]EST OF VALDONIELLO"; in pencil, "VALDONIELLO"; on verso in pen and black ink, at upper left, "No 25"; at upper right, "5th Set".
Provenance:
Dr. Richard Taylor; Stephen Spector.
Associated names:
Taylor, Richard, former owner.
Spector, Stephen, 1946-, former owner.
Salomon, Richard, donor.
Salomon, Richard, Mrs., donor.
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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