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拍品 56 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Lake Thun with the Schlöss Oberhofen

已結束2009年12月16日

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Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Lake Thun with the Schlöss Oberhofen
pencil and watercolour on paper
12 3/8 x 10¼ in. (31.4 x 26 cm.)

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Lear left London for a walking tour of Switzerland on August 1854. On 6 August he wrote to his sister Ann 'I had no idea really of the beauty of Switzerland - for I never was in the really fine parts, except in 1841 - when I came thro' by night ... The Lake of Thun is one of the most beautiful of all the Swiss Lakes; -such a wonderful pea-blue sea-green!'

Although he enjoyed his visit, Lear did not return to Switzerland until 1878, when to escape the summer heat of San Remo, he went to the mountains above Lake Como.