Edward Lear, Cannes.
Inscribed ‘the day/was sloping toward his western bower (Mariana) Cannes/France’ (on part of the original mount, affixed to the reverse). Grey wash over pencil. 10 x 15cm (3 15/16 x 5 7/8in).

Provenance
With Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London.
The Ralph Richardson Collection sale, Sotheby’s, London, 27 April 2001, lot 298.
Private collection, UK.

Exhibited
London, Thomas Agnew & Sons Limited, 108th Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, 19th January – 20th February 1981.

The inscription on the reverse is taken from the last verse of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem Mariana (VII, lines 79-80).

Bonhams.