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The year 2020 marked the 2500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC). Collected here are some of the images Lear made during and after his visit to the site of Thermopylae in June 1848.
Stylida,
26 [probably 27] June 1848.
Pen and ink and watercolour, 14 x 23.2 cm. Lear’s number 84.
Private collection.
Mount Oeta and Thermopylae from near Lamia,
26 [probably 27] June 1848.
Pen and brown ink and watercolour,
heightened with white, 25.5 x 45 cm.
Lear’s number 85.
Private collection.
The Spercheius, near Thermopylae,
illustration to Tennyson's poem “The Palace of Art”.
Black and grey ink with grey wash.
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Spercheius, 29 June 1848.
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour
heightened with white, 18.1 x 29.2 cm. Lear’s number 100.
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
The monogram Lear often used on his later studio watercolours can be seen at the bottom left.
Thermopylae, 30 June 1848.
Pen and ink and watercolour heightened with white on grey paper, 17.5 x 28.5 cm.
Lear’s number 102.
Private collection.
Thermopylae, hot springs under Mount Kallidromos, n.d. [30 June 1848].
Pen and ink and watercolour heightened with white.
Lear’s number 103.
Private collection.
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