Edward Lear, Wall in Samos.
Inscribed with the title and dated 3rd May 1848, further annotated with extensive colour notes, pen and ink, watercolour and bodycolourNote: It has been suggested that this is a view from the North of Cephalonia.
19cm x 28cm (7.5in x 11in)
Davis Galleries, New York.
During his two-month tour to Athens, mainland Greece and the island of Euboea in the summer of 1848, Edward Lear made almost 150 landscape drawings and kept a diary of his experiences and impressions. Lear had lived in Rome for the past ten years, but this seminal journey through Greece was to be the beginning of his travels throughout Europe, India, and the Middle East. Lear subsequently published the same view of Samos in his volume of twenty lithographs titled Views in the Seven Ionian Islands in 1863.
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