EDWARD LEAR (BRITISH 1812-1888)
WALL IN SAMOS, GREECE
Auction: Day Two | Thurs 4th Sept at 10am | Lots 403 to 727
Description
Inscribed with the title and dated 3rd May 1848, further annotated with extensive colour notes, pen and ink, watercolour and bodycolour
Dimensions
19cm x 28cm (7.5in x 11in)
Provenance
Davis Galleries, New York.
Footnote
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.