About This Artwork
Edward Lear
English, 1812-1888
La Piana, 1868
Watercolor and pen and brush and brown ink, over graphite, on ivory wove paper
324 x 537 mm
Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "La Piana / 6 P. M. / 10 May 1868"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "183"
Helen Regenstein Collection, 1967.19
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, “Poetic Horizons: The Landscape Tradition in Britain, 1750-1850,” October 27, 1996-January 19, 1997, cat. by Dennis Michael Jon.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
Ownership History
Sold by the Davis Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1967.