Gouache, chalk and watercolour on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-lear-337" aria-label="More by Edward Lear" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Edward Lear</a>
Galera
Presented by the Earl of Northbrook 1910
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
Galera
Italy
landscape
places
rocky
ruins
townscape
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
<p>Lear produced compositions of striking simplicity and originality, from an astonishing range of places. He would begin with drawings made on the spot, which he would ‘pen-out’ in the studio and then add broad colour washes. These provided the material for the saleable finished works he exhibited back home.</p><p>His first book, published in 1846, was an account of his travels in Italy. These Illustrated Excursions in Italy unexpectedly resulted in an invitation from Queen Victoria, then twenty-seven years old, to give her lessons in drawing.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique gouache chalk watercolour
26 May 2003 – 8 December 2003
2003-12-08
26 May 2003
2003-05-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-05-26
British Watercolours: Turner and his Contemporaries around 1840
Collection based display
Galera
support: 267 × 489 mm
Presented by the Earl of Northbrook 1910
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<span class="text14">Lear</span><span class="text0"> produced compositions      of striking </span><span class="text12">simplicity and originality, from</span><span class="text0"> an astonishing range of places. He would begin with <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a>      made on the spot, which he would ‘pen-out’ in the studio  </span><span class="text12">and then add broad colour washes.  These provided the      material for the saleable finished works he exhibited  back home.</span><span class="text0">
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<span class="text13">His first book, published in 1846, was  an account of      his travels in Italy. These </span><span class="text15">Illustrated      Excursions in Italy</span><span class="text0"> unexpectedly </span><span class="text12">resulted in an invitation from Queen Victoria, then      twenty-seven years old,</span><span class="text0">  to give her      lessons in drawing. </span>
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architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Galera Italy landscape places rocky ruins townscape townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features