Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British, Leonessa, 3 October 1844, 1844
- Title:
- Leonessa, 3 October 1844
- Date:
- 1844
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 1/8 × 10 1/2 inches (30.8 × 26.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "Leonessa Santa Maria fuori della | Porta"; in brown ink, lower right: "The door is [?] stone- | [line of illegible inscriptions] | all the east [?]"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1997.7.48
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | archways | bell | building | door | figures | herd | wall | windows
- Associated Places:
- Italy | Lazio | Leonessa
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4903
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Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, p. 61, no. 31, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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