Edward Lear
1812-1888
View of San Salvador from Caprino on Lake Lugano, 18 August 1878, 2:00 p.m.
Aug. 18 1878
3 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches (85 x 174 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over pencil, with light blue wash, on paper.
1972.20:1
Gift of Stephen Spector.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the artist along lower edge, first in pencil and again in pen, "from Caprino. 2.10 PM 18 Aug. 1878 18 August 1878 Lugano"; several color notations in the artist's hand; numbered on verso in pencil, "71".
Associated names
Spector, Stephen, 1946-, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 172.
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Century Drawings
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