EDWARD LEAR (BRITISH 1812-1888)
SUNSET ON THE NILE
Estimate: £6,000 - £9,000
Auction: Session Two - Thursday 20th February at 10am
Description
Signed with monogram and inscribed ‘Nile’, watercolour
Dimensions
17cm x 36.5cm (6.75in x 13.5in)
Provenance
Agnew's, London, no.48070
Footnote
At the end of his journey along the Nile, Lear writes on 25 February 1867 'In no place - it seems to me, can the variety & simplicity of colours be so well studied as in Egypt; in no place are the various beauties of shadow more observable, or more interminably numerous'