Quarries of Syracuse – (Edward Lear) Previous Next


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Date: 1847

Size: 35 x 50 cm

Museum: National Museums Liverpool (Liverpool, United Kingdom)

Technique: Watercolour

Lear made this sketch with the intention of later making it into an oil painting in his studio. It was made in 1847 when he was travelling from Rome to the rest of Europe. Lear visited Syracuse (a historic city in Sicily) twice – firstly in 1842 and again in 1847. Lear liked quarries and described them as a

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