Edward Lear, Sunset of the Nile.
Signed with monogram and inscribed ‘Nile’, watercolour. 17cm x 36.5cm (6.75in x 13.5in).

Provenance
Agnew’s, London, no.48070

At the end of his journey along the Nile, Lear writes on 25 February 1867 ‘In no place – it seems to me, can the variety & simplicity of colours be so well studied as in Egypt; in no place are the various beauties of shadow more observable, or more interminably numerous’

Lyon & Turnbull.