Edward Lear, Ceylon.
Numbered and dated ‘(792) 11.30 A.M. 20 Nov 1874’ and further inscribed with notes throughout, pen and ink and watercolour. 9.25cm x 25.75cm (3.5in x 10in)
Provenance
The Fine Art Society, London, by 1952
Travelling along the southern coastline of Sri Lanka in November 1874, Lear writes ‘Certainly, the lofty, lofty coco-lined roads of South Ceylon are wonderful and so, on all sides is the crammed luxuriance of a thousand sorts of beautiful vegetation; but beyond these, and now and then a brilliant space of shore and sea.’
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