Edward Lear, Dhows on the Nile.
Pencil and watercolour Dated ’29 Dec’ (lower left), numbered ‘161’ (lower right), colour notes throughout 6.5 x 22.5cm (2½ x 8¾ in.)

Provenance
The Ruskin Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon. The gallery label affixed verso dates the work to 1867, however a later inscription to the label notes there had later been a suggestion by Vivien Noakes that the work is earlier and dates to 1853, which would make it one of Lear’s first Nile trip pictures.

Dreweatts.