Edward Lear, Feluccas on a Stretch of the Nile between Manfalut and Assiut.
Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour. Inscribed, dated and numbered ‘Jany.9.1854/Benimhammed el Confour/between Manfaloot & Es-sioot./3/2PM / 47’ (lower right), colour notes throughout. 8 x 23cm (3 x 9 in.)
Provenance
Anthony Reed, London.
Christie’s, London, 10 December 2008, lot 53, where purchased by Robert Kime
