AT-00002437
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La Piana
by Edward Lear
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "La Piana / 6 P. M. / 10 May 1868"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "183"
Provenance
Sold by the Davis Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1967.
Exhibition history
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, “Poetic Horizons: The Landscape Tradition in Britain, 1750-1850,” October 27, 1996-January 19, 1997, cat. by Dennis Michael Jon. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Edward Lear / English, 1812-1888
- Date
- 1868
- Medium
- Watercolor and pen and brush and brown ink, over graphite, on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 32.4 × 53.7 cm (12 13/16 × 21 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Accession no.
- 1967.19
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