The Aqueduct of Nero in the Roman Campagna
The Aqueduct of Nero in the Roman Campagna
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Edward Lear (1812-1888)
The Aqueduct of Nero in the Roman Campagna
Inscribed in ink lower left: Campagna di Roma and lower right: Sept. 20 1844 and extensively inscribed in pencil
Watercolour over pencil on buff paper
15.7 by 52.3cm., 6 by 20 ½ in.
Provenance:
J.P.W. Cochrane
Lear left England on his first continental sketching trip in July 1837 arriving in Rome at the end of the year. He was based there until 1848. An oil by Lear of this view was sold at Sotheby's on 10th July 1985, lot 105