View of Monte Vergine, Avellino, Campania, Italy

Details

Edward Lear (1812-1888)
View of Monte Vergine, Avellino, Campania, Italy
inscribed and dated '13. Sept. 1847/Avellinó/Monte Vergine' (lower left) and further inscribed with colour notes
pencil, pen and brown ink
18 x 11¾ in. (45.7 x 30 cm)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 October 1989, lot 99.

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Lot Essay

'[O]ne is never weary of looking at the beautiful outline of Avellino and Monte Vergine through the framework of hanging vines... There is a carriage-road from the city to the village of Spedaletto, situated at a considerable height on the mountain, and beyond this, the path to the monastery is for more than three miles a very steep zig-zag' (P. Quennell, Edward Lear in Southern Italy, London, 1964, p. 167).

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