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Edward Lear

“Thunderclouds that hang on high,” Joannina, Epirus, Albania, after 1878

Description

Maker

Title

“Thunderclouds that hang on high,” Joannina, Epirus, Albania

Year

after 1878

Medium

Pen and ink, brush and wash, and graphite on wove paper [J. Whatman]

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Dimensions

Plate: 26.4 x 51.8 cm (10 3/8 x 20 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

In brown ink, U margin:25/Thunderclouds that hang on high;UR:Joannina (Albania.)Pencil notations on Cliff:very dark ; in ink on mountains, R:sno

Type

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

72.171.36

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

“Grisogorious Places”

September 14, 2012 - May 19, 2013

This scene of Albania derives from Lear’s trip to the region in 1848. It illustrates the following Tennyson verse from “Eleänore,” published in 1832:

As thunder-clouds that, hung on high,
Roofed the world with doubt and fear,
Floating through an evening atmosphere,
Grow golden all about the sky;
In thee all passion becomes passionless,
Touched by thy spirit’s mellowness,
Losing his fire and active might
In silent meditation,
Falling into a still delight,
And luxury of contemplation.

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