Edward Lear, Edfu Sunset (1854)

Edward Lear, Edfu Sunset.
Watercolour. Inscribed ‘Edfoo [sic] Sunset, 6.30pm, Feby 11. 1854’ (lower left). 15 x 23cm (5¾ x 9 in.)

Provenance
Christie’s, London, 15 November 1988, lot 44
Christie’s, London, 1 August 2002, lot 70, where purchased by Robert Kime

Exhibited
Lausanne, Fondation de L’Hermitage, L’Age d’or de l’Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, 22 January-24 May 1999, no. 116

Literature
G. Bauer, Le Siecle d’or de l’Aquarelle Anglaise, Anthèse, 1998, p. 145. pl. 201
W. Hauptman, L’Age d’or de l’Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, Lausanne, 1999, p. 176, no. 116, illustrated in colour

Dreweatts.

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