Edward Lear, Drymades, Albania.
Signed with the monogram and inscribed ‘Drymades’, watercolour heightened with white. 11.5cm x 18cm (4.5in x 7.25in).
Provenance
Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd, London
Lear painted some of the wildest and most dramatic countryside when he first travelled through Albania under challenging conditions in the autumn of 1848. Few foreigners had been to the remote area beyond Yannina. On occasion Lear was prevented from making drawings in this Islamic country where pictorial representations were regarded with fear and suspicion.
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