© Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum
1) Loweswater; 2) Ullswater from Gowbarrow Park; 3) View to the South from Birkrigg, Furness, Lancashire
Artist: Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
Location: Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum
Date: 1837
Materials: pencil heightened with white
Dimensions: 1) 17.3 x 25.3cm; 2) 17.3 x 25.6cm; 3) 8.8 x 17.2cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £7,410 (Total: £18,042)
Vendor: W/S Fine Art Ltd
Review number: 5721 (2006)
Provenance:
1&3) Robert A Hornby; Sotheby's, 1982; Sotheby's, 2005; W/S Fine Art Ltd. 2) Sotheby's, 1986; Sotheby's, 2005 W/S Fine Art Ltd.
Description:
The three drawings represent the final stage of Lear's Lake District work which he worked on after he had left the Lakes and shortly before his departure for the Continent. Lear creates precise details and varied textures largely from the use of the pencil and touches of white heightening. In the small view from Furness, for example, he is able to create the impression of distant hills with no more than a few waving lines.
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