LEAR, Edward (British, 1812-1888). The Tomb of Cecilia Metella on the Via Appia, Rome. ca. 1842. Cartographer_Jean-Baptiste de Couagne 1920s32" x 36" canvas

1920s32" x 36" canvas

and literature—Athens

and attention to detail

Choris worked extensively in pastels and documented the Ohlone people in the missions of San Francisco

"colemines"

LEAR, Edward (British, 1812-1888). The Tomb of Cecilia Metella on the Via Appia, Rome. ca. 1842. Cartographer_Jean-Baptiste de Couagne 1920s32" x 36" canvasEdward Lear (British, 1812 1888)The Tomb of Cecilia Metella on the Via Appia, RomeOil on canvasSigned "1842 Ed Lear"9" x 17 1 2" canvas, 18 1 2" x 26 1 4" framed Provenance: Painted for Captain and Miss Phipps Hornby of Shooters Hill, Kent; Miss Edith Jones, and thence by descent. During the nineteenth century, artists and tourists alike flocked to Italy to observe the country's countless ruins and bask in its mythical golden sunlight. Edward Lear