1846
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Illustrated Excursion in Italy (vol. II): Ancient Walls, Monte Circello is a 1846 by Edward Lear, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This drawing shows a lone person sitting on top of a tall, jagged rock formation. Below, smaller boulders and patches of grass cover the ground. The sky is faint, blending into the distant hills. The artist focused on rough textures—every crack and shadow in the stone looks real. This was made in 1846 as part of a travel book about Italy. Check out Edward Lear for more quirky, detailed landscapes.
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised but which term he never used.
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