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Edward Lear: Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Sunrise   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Edward Lear  (1812–1888)  wikidata:Q309759 s:en:Author:Edward Lear q:en:Edward Lear
 
Edward Lear
Alternative names
Derry Down Derry; Eduard Liri; Lear
Description English artist, author and poet
Date of birth/death 12 May 1812 Edit this at Wikidata 29 January 1888 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death
English: Holloway, London, England.
English: Sanremo, Italy.
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artist QS:P170,Q309759
Title
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Sunrise
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 1859
date QS:P571,+1859-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 40 cm (15.7 in); width: 60.3 cm (23.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,40U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,60.3U174728
Object history Sir James Reid, commissioned from the artist; The Property of a Lady; Christie's, London, 29 February 1980, lot 14; Private collection to 2001; with Spink-Leger, London, where acquired by the present owner.
Exhibition history London, Fine Art Society, Travellers beyond the Grand Tour, 1980, no. 3 (on loan).
London, Fine Art Society, The Travels of Edward Lear, 1983, no. 89 (on loan).
London, Royal Academy, The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse. European Painters in North Africa and the Near East, 1984, no. 83.
London, Fine Art Society, Great Cities in the 19th Century, 1985, no. 48 (on loan).
London, Royal Academy, Edward Lear 1812-1888, 1985, no. 56.
Inscriptions signed with initials and dated '1859' (lower left) and inscribed 'Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, Sunrise from drawings made by me in April and May 1858
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5403392
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a similar painting in the Israel Museum

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