Edward Lear, Esneh on the Nile, near Luxor.
Pencil, pen and red ink and watercolour on buff paper. Inscribed and indistinctly dated ‘Esneh.5/2 P.M. Jany24.1856(?)’ (lower left) and numbered ‘(126)’ (lower right). 10 x 15.5cm (3¾ x 6 in.)

Provenance
The Fine Arts Society, 1992
Sale, Christie’s, London, British Art on Paper incl. The Blue Rigi by J.M.W Turner, 5 June 2006, lot 64, where purchased by Robert Kime

Dreweatts.