Edward Lear, Masada from the Dead Sea.
Signed with monogram (lower right) pencil, pen and brown and blue ink and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour 7 1/8 x 15 in. (18.1 x 38.1 cm.)

Provenance
With the Redfern Gallery, London, where purchased by Norman Bentwich (†);
Sotheby’s, London, 22 March 1979, lot 110
With Martyn Gregory, London.
With Davis and Langdale, New York, where purchased by Mrs Vincent Astor.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 3 July 2013, lot 190.