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Edward Lear

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Grey watercolor of a mountain valley with snowy peaks, a village with towers, and water in the foreground.

Taggia

1884

Ink and wash drawing of tall palm trees beside water, with figures in a canoe and mountains in the distance.

Figures Setting Out in Canoes from a Palm Grove (Wady Feiran)

1884

Grey wash drawing of a river winding between banded rock cliffs under a pale sky, with reflections on the water.

River Winding through a Rock Formation (Philae, Egypt)

1884

Watercolor and pencil sketch of three women in traditional red-capped costumes with handwritten notes, by Edward Lear.

Peasant women from Ragusa

1866 (?)

Watercolor landscape of a snowy mountain range over a winding river plain, with three robed figures on a hill in the foregrou

Mount Olympus from Larissa, Thessaly, Greece

1850-85

Graphite sketch by Edward Lear of St. Peter's dome in Rome, with smaller studies of umbrella pines and landscape.

View of St. Peter's, Rome

1843

Pen and ink sketch of a bay with a hilltop town, rocky foreground, small figures and a horseman.

View of Sciacca, Sicily

May 20, 1847

Grey wash drawing of a hilltop church with cypress trees above a valley, with snowy mountains in the distance.

A Town on a Hilltop (Sanctuary of Lampedusa)

1884/1885

Grey wash drawing of a river gorge with a hilltop town of arched buildings and goats resting on the right foreground.

Goats Resting above a River Gorge (Narni, Italy)

1884/1885

Grey wash drawing of tall palms beside domed buildings and small figures, with rocky hills behind under a pale sky.

Mahatta

1884/1885

Grey wash drawing of Thebes ruins with pylon gateways, palm trees, and cattle resting in shallow water in the foreground.

Thebes

1884/1885

Grey wash drawing of palm trees beside a river with distant mountains and two figures at right, by Edward Lear.

Avisavella, Ceylon

1884/1885

Grey wash drawing of a bay with a fortified headland in the distance and trees on the right, by Edward Lear.

View across a Bay (Monaco)

1884/1885

Grey wash drawing of an arched stone bridge over a river, with a hilltop town and distant mountains beyond.

Bridge with Mountains in the Distance (Ventimiglia)

1884/1885

Watercolor of Venice's domed Santa Maria della Salute at sunset, with sailing boats and a gondola on pink-tinted lagoon water

Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, at Sunset

1865/1884

Watercolor of a hilltop town on a cliff above trees, with hazy mountains behind it.

Corte, Corsica

1868