Live Auction 20686Old Masters Part II: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings and Watercolours
EDWARD LEAR (LONDON 1812-1888 SAN REMO)
Lot 225

EDWARD LEAR (LONDON 1812-1888 SAN REMO)

Tor de'Schiavi, Campagna de Roma

Closed8 December 2023

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EDWARD LEAR (LONDON 1812-1888 SAN REMO)
Tor de'Schiavi, Campagna de Roma
signed with monogram (lower left)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white and with scratching out
7 x 14 ¾ in. (17.8 x 37.5 cm.)

The artist, by whom given to Chichester Fortescue, and by descent to his wife,
Frances, Countess Waldegrave, and by descent to her niece,
Constance Strachey (née Braham), and by descent to her niece,
Mary Straw, and by descent to
Richard Strachey, and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note


Lear first travelled to Rome in 1837, and for the next decade would use the city as his base for his travels around Europe. The present drawing appears to have been worked up later, from a sketch of the 1830s or 1840s, when he travelled extensively through the Roman campagna.