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Edward Lear, Athens from Mount Lycabettus. Inscribed and dated ‘Athens – fr. Mt. Lycabettus./ 12. June./ 1848′ (lower left), and numbered ’23’ (lower right). Pencil, pen and brown ink, blue and brown wash on paper watermarked ‘FRERES’. 10½ x 18½ … Continue reading →

Edward Lear, A ruined tower, Thebes. Inscribed and dated ‘Thebes. July. 4. 1848/ a high wind & so cold I must go back for a coat’ (lower left), numbered ‘117’ (lower right), and extensively inscribed with colour notes throughout. Pencil, … Continue reading →

Edward Lear, The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens. Inscribed and dated ‘Athens / 8. 9th June. 1848′, numbered ’18’ (lower right), and extensively inscribed with artist’s notes throughout. Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour. 11 1/8 … Continue reading →

After Edward Lear, The Acropolis from the southwest, with the Temple of Athena Niké. Inscribed and dated ‘Athens. / 5. 6. 7. June / 1848’ (lower left), and inscribed and numbered ‘(6) / a copy, made June 1866; the original … Continue reading →

Edward Lear, Thousands of goats, near Thebes. Inscribed and dated ‘near Thiva. / 1848./ thousands of goats black’ (lower left), numbered ‘116’ (lower right), and inscribed with colour notes throughout. Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour. 6 ¼ x … Continue reading →

Edward Lear, The Temple of Nike Apteros, Athens. Inscribed and dated ‘Athens../ 5, 6 & 12 June / 1848/ “and it was windy weather”/ A. Tennyson’ (lower left), numbered ’13’ (lower right), and inscribed ‘earth – innumerable bits of marble/ … Continue reading →

Edward Lear, Parnassus, Greece. Signed, inscribed and dated ‘Parnassus/ Edward Lear del./ 1856.’ (lower right). Pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour, heightened with white on duck-egg blue paper. 12 ½ x 20 in. (31.8 x 50.8 cm.) Provenance Charles … Continue reading →

Edward Lear, The Island of Cerigo (Kythira), Greece. Inscribed and dated ’23 May 1.10-1.45pm 1863′ and numbered ‘198’, pen, ink and watercolour with annotations, 32 x 48.5cm. With Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd. The Saleroom.

Of the picture below, Stephen Duckworth, who kindly informed me of this sale of several Lear paintings, writes: This fine view of Stavroniketes monastery on the Mount Athos peninsula was drawn by Lear early on his journey round the twenty … Continue reading →

Edward Lear, Plain below Mt Ithome, 4p.m. 21 March 1849. Inscribed and dated in ink and pencil. 10.25 x 16.5in. The Saleroom.