The Spell of Italy

About the exhibition

McGregor Room, University of Virginia Library presented The Spell of Italy in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1989-03-05 to 1989-07-30. The documented selection includes drawings, retaining the particular surviving objects and their historical catalogue references. Documented examples include Edward Lear’s Villa Pamphili (1840; graphite on brown wove paper) and Edward Lear’s Sketches in Italy [recto] (1839/1845; black chalk and graphite with gray and white washes on light brown wove paper). The object histories give the exhibition’s opening and closing dates; the reconstructed checklist remains partial.

Also recorded as: The Spell of Italy, University of Virginia Library (McGregor Room), Charlottesville, 5 March - 30 July