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Khimára

Maker

(artist)
1812-1888

(engraver)
1812-1888

(publisher)

(printer)

Title

Khimára

Date of Production

March 1851

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 25.2 cm
Width: 15.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4756.9

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords















Related Works

Prints from 'Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, etc.'

Label Text

Edward Lear, painter, poet and travel writer, first visited Albania in 1848, discovering places never previously seen by foreigners. In his journal he described the views as the wildest and most dramatic he had ever seen, especially Khimara, perched high on a rocky precipice facing the island of Corfu. Charles Hullmandel’s recently patented process of lithotint enabled the subtle contrasts of black and golden tones with touches of white that enrich this small Romanticised view.

Notes

Plate 10 in a set of lithographic landscape prints from Edward Lear's text Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, etc., based on the artist's travels.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Purpose and Process: British and French Printmaking 1600 - 1900, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/05/2014-20/06/2014

Inscriptions

Stamp: Mount, Recto: upper right, stamped in purple ink: WITT / LIBRARY.

Inscription: Recto: upper left, printed: Plate 10.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, printed: Edwd. Lear del et lith.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, printed: Printed by Hullmandel & Walton..

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, printed: KHIMÁRA / London:Richard Bentley New Burlington Street March 1851..

Inscription: Mount, Recto: lower left, typed in black ink: lithograph.

Inscription: Mount, Recto: lower centre, typed in black ink: Edward LEAR..

Inscription: Mount, Verso: upper right, manuscript pencil: 935/12(22).

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