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Rieti

Maker

(artist)
1812-1888

Title

Rieti

Date of Production

1846

Dimensions

Height: 27.4 cm
Width: 37.3 cm

Accession Number

G.2019.ST.2

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




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 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 a distant view of the town of Rieti in Lazio with the Sabine Mountains in the background.

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 upper right corner of image, printed in black: “Plate 15”; within the image, lower left corner, printed in black, name of artist: “E. Lear del et lith.”; lower centre margin, printed in black: “RIETI.”. Verso: lower right corner, all in graphite: “Italy”, “V:05:Europe” and enclosed in a rectangle “13233”.

Collector's mark: none.

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