EDWARD LEAR (BRITISH 1812-1888)
ILLUSTRATION TO TENNYSON'S 'THE DAISY - ONE TALL AGAVE - VARENNA, LAKE OF LECCO (BELLAGGIO) ITALY
Auction: Day Two | Thurs 4th Sept at 10am | Lots 403 to 727
Description
Signed with the monogram and inscribed ‘Varenna’, further inscribed with the title under the mount and numbered ‘175’, grisaille
Dimensions
9.5cm x 14cm (3.75in x 5.5in)
Provenance
Alfred, Lord Tennyson;
by descent until 1980.
Footnote
Literature:
Ruth Pitman, Edward Lera's Tennyson, Manchester, 1988, pp.172, illustrated.