EDWARD LEAR (BRITISH 1812-1888)
DRYMADES, ALBANIA
Estimate: £5,000 - £7,000
Auction: Session Two - Thursday 20th February at 10am
Description
Signed with the monogram and inscribed ‘Drymades’, watercolour heightened with white
Dimensions
11.5cm x 18cm (4.5in x 7.25in)
Provenance
Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd, London
Footnote
Lear painted some of the wildest and most dramatic countryside when he first travelled through Albania under challenging conditions in the autumn of 1848. Few foreigners had been to the remote area beyond Yannina. On occasion Lear was prevented from making drawings in this Islamic country where pictorial representations were regarded with fear and suspicion.