Edward Lear, Sunset on the Nile near Mankabat.
Inscribed and dated ‘5.20 sunset Jan 8 1867 (near Mankabat)’ and numbered ‘107’ and further inscribed with colour notes throughout, pen and ink and watercolour. 12.5cm x 19cm (5in x 7.5in).

Provenance
Colnaghi, London

This drawing can be compared with the watercolour titled Near Gan el Kebir and dated 9 January 1867 at the Yale Centre for British Art (inv.no.B1997.7.105). Both drawings were executed when Lear was travelling on the river Nile near the town Asyut, around 200 miles south of Cairo.

Lyon & Trumbull.