Edward Lear, Wady Halfa, Egypt.
Signed with the monogram and dated 1884, further inscribed and dated ‘Feb. 3, 1867, watercolour and bodycolour
9cm x 17cm (3.5in x 6.75in)
Walker Galleries, London;Christie’s, London, 26 January 1984, lot 178.
The present work closely relates to a watercolour of the same subject and date at the Yale Center for British Art (inv. no. B1997.7.191).
Edward Lear, One Tall Agave, Varenna, Lake of Lecco (Bellagio). Illustration to Tennysaon’s “The Daisy.”
Signed with the monogram and inscribed ‘Varenna’, further inscribed with the title under the mount and numbered ‘175’, grisaille
9.5cm x 14cm (3.75in x 5.5in)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson;by descent until 1980.
Literature:Ruth Pitman, Edward Lera’s Tennyson, Manchester, 1988, pp.172, illustrated.
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.
Clipped signature beneath an albumen print, circa 1860, clipped signature ‘Yrs. sincerely, Edward Lear’ in brown ink, mount aperture 3.3 x 5.5 cm, with albumen print of a seated Edward Lear with entourage in front of an encampment, mount aperture 20 x 28 cm, with another similar albumen print of Lear displayed to verso, framed and glazed, frame 38.5 x 45 cm.
The photograph might have been taken during Edward Lear’s trip to Petra.
Here is the whole framed item:
Edward Lear, View of Cairo, with the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx in the distance, 1849.
Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour, heightened. 6 ¾ x 20 in. (17.2 x 50.9 cm.)
Edward Lear, Mont Blanc.
Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on blue paper. 6 ½ x 10 1⁄8 in. (16.5 x 25.9 cm.)
Edward Lear, River landscape, Naqadeh (Iran)
Inscribed ‘Naqadeh 11AM 21 Jans 1854’ and numbered 108, watercolour, 6 x 15.5cm.
Provenance
with Ryman & Co Ltd, Oxford
Edward Lear, View on the Nile, Dishne.
Inscribed ‘Near Dishne, 5.10PM Feby 27.1867’, and numbered 558, watercolour, 6 x 17cm.
Provenance
with Ryman & Co Ltd, Oxford.
Edward Lear, Jerusalem from near the Mount of Olives, 1858.
Pen and brown ink and watercolour. Works on Paper. 214 by 320 mm
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