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Mount Parnassus

Maker

(artist)
1812-1888

Title

Mount Parnassus

Date of Production

1849

Medium

graphite, watercolour with some added gum arabic, bodycolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 12.3 cm
Width: 18.3 cm

Accession Number

D.2007.DS.25

Mode of Acquisition

Dorothy Scharf, bequest, 2007 (March)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

Spink (dates unknown); Miss Dorothy Scharf, London (1942-2004); Scharf Bequest 2007

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, brown-grey watercolour, signed with monogram: "EL". Verso: lower right, graphite: "39". Backboard (removed, in file): "Lear and his friend Franklin Lushington made a six week journey through Greece in the spring of 1849, Parnassus being almost the last place they visited.".

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