Six Illustrations to Tennyson's Poems
Artist: Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
Location: Bristol University Library
Date: 1880 - 1883
Materials: grey wash
Dimensions: 9 x 14 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £495 (Total: £1,980)
Vendor: Spink
Review number: 2909 (1981)
Provenance:
Tennyson family; Research Centre Lincoln; Sotheby's 1980, and broken into separate drawings.
Description:
6 drawings, from the first set made for reproduction, of scenes from India, Palestine, Egypt and Albania mounted in pairs on sheets with notes on the view and relevant quotation from Tennyson. Part of group of 200 illustrations to landscape allusions.
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