Lear, Edward (British, 1812-1888). The Campagna di Roma taken from Cervara

Edward Lear (British, 1812-1888)The Campagna di Roma  taken from CervaraOil on canvas25 9/16" x 51" canvas Signed with monogram (lower left); signed, inscribed and dated ‘The Campagna di Roma taken from... of Cervara,/looking East to the Sabine Hills/Painted from drawings made on the spot in 1859, 1860; and completed by me for/Walter Congreve Esq. in 1871/ Edward Lear/San Remo (on a label on the reverse) Provenance: Commissioned directly from the artist by Walter Congreve Esq., San Remo. Literature:  Edward Lear, List of Pictures Painted, 1840-1877, no. 240, as: Campagna di Roma. Quarries of Cerbara. The Elements- trees, clouds, &c.,-silence...seem to have far more part with me or I with them, than mankind. (Edward Lear, 1862, quoted in Vivien Noakes, The Painter Edward Lear, 1991, p. 8)   Edward Lear was born into a middle-class family at Holloway, North London, the penultimate of twenty-one children (and youngest to survive) of Ann Clark Skerrett and Jeremiah Lear. He was brought