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Ancient Gate, Norba

Maker

(artist)
1812-1888

Title

Ancient Gate, Norba

Date of Production

1846

Dimensions

Height: 27.1 cm
Width: 37.3 cm

Accession Number

G.2019.ST.1

Mode of Acquisition

The Spooner Charitable Trust, gift

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Related Works

Rieti

Label Text

The artist, illustrator and poet Edward Lear (1812-1888) began his artistic career as a teenager as an ornithological illustrator, but lifelong poor health and deteriorating eyesight forced him to abandon this field in favour of landscape. His oeuvre consists primarily of watercolours, prints and oils inspired by his travels around the Mediterranean, usually worked up in the studio from wash drawings made on the spot.

This colour lithograph is an illustration to Lear’s Illustrated Excursions in Italy (1846), the fruit of a four-year voyage around Italy (1842-46); it depicts the ruined gateway of the ancient Volscian town of Norba in Lazio.

Provenance

Grosvenor Prints (London); puchased there by The Spooner Charitable Trust, gift to the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 2019

Literature

Lear, Edward, Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 1846
Fig. p. repr.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: above right corner of image, printed in black: “Plate 12.”; within the image, lower right corner, printed in black, name of artist: “E. Lear del et lith.”; lower centre, printed in black: “ANCIENT GATE, NORBA.”. Verso: upper left edge, graphite: “Vol II Papal States”; lower right corner, all in graphite: “Italy”, circled “130”, “V:05:europe”, and enclosed in a rectangle “25595”.

Collector's mark: none.

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