Antrodoco
Antrodoco
AntrodocoSigned lower left: E Lear del. 1846 and inscribed with title lower rightBlack chalk heightened with white on blue paper12.5 by 17.8 cm., 4 ¾ by 7 in.Provenance:John Scandrett Harford (1787-1866);By descent until 2015Lear visited Antrodoco on 5th and 6th August 1843. A view of Antrodoco was engraved for Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 1846, pl.14.All the triple-armed valley of Antrodoco is full of grand scenery; but it is so threatened and walled-in by lofty mountains, as to be, to my feeling, oppressive in character. The town itself has a very Swiss look….. It contains no object of interest, and is sufficiently gloomy….. its castle, now a ruin, frowns in decay, from a huge rock immediately above the clustered dwellings.' (p.51).){kind=link}
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Antrodoco
Signed lower left: E Lear del. 1846 and inscribed with title lower right
Black chalk heightened with white on blue paper
12.5 by 17.8 cm., 4 ¾ by 7 in.
Provenance:
John Scandrett Harford (1787-1866);
By descent until 2015
Lear visited Antrodoco on 5th and 6th August 1843. A view of Antrodoco was engraved for Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 1846, pl.14.
All the triple-armed valley of Antrodoco is full of grand scenery; but it is so threatened and walled-in by lofty mountains, as to be, to my feeling, oppressive in character. The town itself has a very Swiss look….. It contains no object of interest, and is sufficiently gloomy….. its castle, now a ruin, frowns in decay, from a huge rock immediately above the clustered dwellings.' (p.51).