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Sartène, Corsica

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Artist

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil heightened with white and gum arabic. Lear's Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica records his trip to Corsica in the spring of 1868. His Journal entry for April 21 6 a.m. reads:

'After three days stay (and I could willingly remain here for as many weeks. . . .) I leave Sart'ne. . . . Just above the town, where the high road to Bonifacio passes the Capuchin convent, there is the first view of Sart'ne and the mountains; the whole town stands out in a grand mass from the valley and heights, and there is something rough and feudal in its dark houses that places it architecture far above that of Ajaccio in a picturesque sense.'

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Location

Sartène, Corsica, France

Country

France