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Views in Rome and Its Environs; Drawn from Nature and on Stone

Edward Lear British
Publisher Thomas McLean British
1841
Not on view
Illustrated title page, list of subjects, 25 lithographic plates. Lear spent much time traveling in Italy from 1838 to 1848 and there began his career as a topographical draughtsman. This book constitutes the first of seven travel books he created. There is no descriptive text but the images and captions provide ample description of the Italian locales. Lear made his own drawings on the lithographic stone rather than leaving it to an anonymous lithographer to reproduce.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Views in Rome and Its Environs; Drawn from Nature and on Stone
  • Artist: Edward Lear (British, London 1812–1888 San Remo)
  • Publisher: Thomas McLean (British, 1788–1875)
  • Printer: Charles Joseph Hullmandel (British, London 1789–1850 London)
  • Date: 1841
  • Medium: Illustrations: lithographs
  • Dimensions: 21 3/4 x 15 3/16 x 1 3/16 in. (55.2 x 38.5 x 3cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968
  • Object Number: 68.526.31
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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