Catania and Mount Etna, 1847, Oil on board, 12 1/4 x 19 in. (31. 1 x 48. 3 cm), Drawings, Edward Lear (British, London 1812?1888 San Remo), Lear inscribed this sketch with the date, June 16, 1847, on which he trekked to the volcano Etna. The following evening, he concluded a? description of its challenging ascent with these words: 'One is amply repaid by the extraordinary scene above?where you look on the whole island of Sicily just like a great pink map in the sky?with the sea round it so blue, & the dark purple triangular shade of the mountains over that part furthest from the sun which rose just before we got to the mouth of the crater