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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Capo Sant'Angelo, Amalfi is a 1885 ink by Edward Lear, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Edward Lear shows Capo Sant’Angelo in Amalfi from the sea. The cliffs rise steep and jagged under a bright sky. A tiny fishing boat floats near the shore, giving scale. Lear loved Italy’s coasts. He often sketched these sharp rocks and bright light. The lines are quick but sure—his hand never wavered. See more of Lear’s coastal views at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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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