The Pass of Monte D'Oro, Corsica

Details

Edward Lear (1812-1888)
The Pass of Monte D'Oro, Corsica
signed with monogram (lower left) and inscribed 'Snow peaks exact & sharp off cloud/Foliage all Beech on Turf/small stream in foreground' (on the reverse of the mount)
pencil, pen and brown ink and brown and grey wash, heightened with white
3 5/8 x 4 3/8 in. (9.2 x 11 cm.)

Provenance

Frances, Countess Waldegrave and her husband, Chichester Fortescue.

Engraved

Engraved Edward Lear Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica, 1870, p. 161.

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Lot Essay

The present drawing was engraved and published in Lear's Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica in 1870, based on a visit he made in 1868. It was the last of Lear's travel books and the only one illustrated with wood engravings. As Vivian Noakes remarks '... he was unwilling to face what had by now become the disagreeable chore of preparing lithographic plates.' (Vivian Noakes, The Painter Edward Lear, London, 1991, p. 88).

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