Edward Lear, Dendera, Egypt.
Inscribed and dated ‘Dendera/ 4.30.PM./ January 15/ 1867’ (lower left) and numbered ‘(173)’ (lower right), and further inscribed with colour notes throughout. Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour, heightened with touches of white on paper. 7 1⁄8 x 21 1⁄8 in. (18.1 x 53.6 cm.)

Christie’s.