Catania and Mount Etna, 1847, Oil on board, 12 1/4 x 19 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Edward Lear (British, London 1812–1888

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Catania and Mount Etna, 1847, Oil on board, 12 1/4 x 19 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Edward Lear (British, London 1812–1888 San Remo), Lear inscribed this sketch with the date, June 16, 1847, on which he trekked to the volcano Etna. The following evening, he concluded a　description of its challenging ascent with these words: 'One is amply repaid by the extraordinary scene above—where you look on the whole island of Sicily just like a great pink map in the sky—with the sea round it so blue, & the dark purple triangular shade of the mountains over that part furthest from the sun which rose just before we got to the mouth of the crater

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