拍品 163
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Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Porto Maurizio

細節
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Porto Maurizio
signed with monogram (lower right)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic
45/8 x 7 in. (11.8 x 17.8 cm.)

拍品專文

Porto Maurizio is on the coast near San Remo. Lear used this composition as part of his scheme to illustrate the poems of Tennyson. The poem here illustrated is The Daisy (see R. Pitman, Edward Lear's Tennyson, 1988, p. 206.)