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Between Caracalla and Laura

image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art | All Rights Reserved

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Date

September 1856

Artist

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Pen and brown ink and watercolour. Caracalla and Laura are two monasteries on the Holy Mountain of Athos. Lear spent three weeks there in the late summer of 1856 - he appreciated the scenery and was well received by the monks. The present watercolour shows the ruggedness of the landscape through which he travelled which he described as 'abundantly and exquisitely glorious and stupendous' (letter to Chichester Fortescue, 9th October 1856, quoted in Vivien Noakes, Edward Lear 1812-1888, 1985, p.147). A watercolour of the monastery at Caracalla by Lear, dated 4th September 1856, was sold at Sotheby's on 11th July 1990, lot 138.

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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Location

Mount Athos, Greece

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Mountains
Religious Buildings

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Landscapes & Seascapes

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