Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Sleeping and Dreaming

Edward Lear
1812-1888

Sleeping and Dreaming

9 1/16 x 7 7/16 inches (230 x 189 mm)
Pen and brown ink on paper.
2007.88k

Gift of Mrs. Paul Pennoyer, 1963.

Notes
Part of 11 drawings including a nonsense rhyme, seven with humorous texts and three landscapes.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed with, "I sleep and back to my early days-Did roaming [ ] room-when my heart was light and my eyes were bright, and my room a happy one. When I dreamed I was moving and my art was free from care, about my parents ? / Once again I was rising before in childhood. Ist rays on my hand, think play. It wont turn each [ ]?"
Associated names
Pennoyer, Frances, 1897-1989, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department