Edward Lear, El Koorneh, Egypt.
Titled and dated ’19.Feby, 1854′ lower left and with annotations pencil, pen and brown ink and wash on off-white paper 12 x 42.50cm (5 x 17in).
Provenance
Spink & Son Ltd., 5, 6, 7 King Street, St James’s, SW1.
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, holds another version of the present composition.