Edward Lear, Lago d’Iséo, Lombardy.
Titled (lower left) and numbered ‘151’ (lower right). Brown ink and watercolour. 15 x 21.5cm.
Provenance
John Peter Cochrane Collection;
Sale, Bonhams, London, 31st March 2015, lot 28;
Private collection, UK
Following an extensive trip to the Holy Land in 1867, Lear headed to Lombardy in Northern Italy and spent a month travelling through the Italian lakes. This small study most likely dates from the end of May 1867.
Edward Lear, Peacocks near Bhurtpore, Northern India (1874).
3 1 ⁄ 4 x 6 3 ⁄ 4 in. (8.3 x 17.2 cm.).
Edward Lear, a Pair of Birds on a Tree Branch.
Pencil, Watercolor And Bodycolor, Heightened With Gum-Arabic And Gold Paint. 7″ x 5″ sheet.
Edward Lear, Study of a red and yellow macaw, Macrocercus Aracanga.
Pencil. 12.3 x 11cm (4 13/16 x 4 5/16in).
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, London, 15 July 1999, lot 127.
Private collection, UK.
When offered at Sotheby’s, it has been suggested by Vivien Noakes that this study relates to the group of working drawings for Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae (Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, The Houghton Library, Harvard University). This drawing, which shows Lear concentrating particularly on the feathers, would have been executed in the Zoological Society of London between 1830 and 1832.
Edward Lear, An English Country House.
Pen and ink. 31 x 50.5cm (12 3/16 x 19 7/8in).
Provenance
With Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, no. 29336.
Private collection, UK.
According to a label attached to the reverse, this work is from an album of drawings illustrating Tennyson’s poems. It is suggested that the work comes from the collection of Sir Osbert Sitwell, sold at Sotheby’s in 3 March 1965.
Landscape with a viaduct and a castle in the distance, 1850.
Pen and ink, and watercolour heightened with white on paper. 13.7 x 18.9cm; 5½ x 7½in
Edward Lear, San Remo. Dec. 10, 1864.
Pen and ink and watercolour with traces of pencil. 17.5 x 54cm (6 7/8 x 21 1/4in)
Edward Lear, Jafa.
Signed with the monogram and dated 1884, further inscribed and dated ‘Feb. 17. 1867’, watercolour and bodycolour
9cm x 17cm (3.5in x 6.75in)
Travelling by ‘the grumpy roary groanery of camels’ across the desert, Lear arrived in Palestine in the spring of 1867 after visiting Egypt during the first months of that year.
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