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The Castle of Melfi, Italy

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Artist

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Pen and brown ink and washes heightened with white on grey paper
20.8 by 29.1 cm, 8 x 11 ¼ inches

Lear visited Melfi from 17th to 22nd September 1847 while he was living in Rome. Having visited Sicily in May and June 1847, he toured Southern Italy from July until October. He described the castle as `sufficiently imposing at this silent hour of night. There is a drawbridge, and sullen gates, and dismal court-yards, and massive towers, and seneschals with keys and fierce dogs – all the requisites of the feudal fortress of romance’ (see Edward Lear in Southern Italy, 1964, pp. 182-184). Melfi is in the central southern area of Basilicata to the east of Naples.

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Location

Melfi Castle, Italy

Country

Italy