Two Watercolor Landscape Paintings

Two pieces, both professionally framed. Watercolor of Italian countryside, L’ariccia, “Edward Leer Del Et…”, framed, 20” x 16”. This work may be an original lithograph. Matte has partially obscured signature and full title — see photographs.

Watercolor painting of snow-covered cottages, gold frame, by Louis Van Der Pol, born 1904 in Holland, “Winter Approaches”, 24” x 20”. See photos for details.

From a recent sale of this image: Issued in the first and largest of Lear’s published travel sets, Views of Rome and its Environs.

Edward Lear’s Views of Rome are undoubtedly some of his most splendid topographical prints. These hand drawn original lithographs were the result of his first extended journey to southern Europe and in particular to Italy, the country which was to become his second home. “Drawn from nature and on the stone” by Edward Lear himself, these beautiful views possess a freshness inspired by the artist’s first impressions of a country which was to steal his heart.

Although widely known for his achievements in a variety of fields, Edward Lear was a landscape painter by profession and by the time of his first visit to Rome he was already an accomplished lithographer. It is clear that Edward Lear planned a sumptuous series of original lithographs from his first extended journey to Southern Europe from the outset. Edward Lear travelled throughout Italy, staying primarily in Rome for a period of over four years between 1837 and 1841. During this time he built up a collection of sketches from which these lithographs could be prepared. Upon Edward Lear's return to England he worked these up into elaborate reversed drawings, made directly upon the lithographic stones. He arranged for the printing of these to be handled by C. Hullmandel, probably the most famous lithographic printer of the era.

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