Lot 1969
EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888)
ON THE NILE, 1867
Inscribed 3.10.PM.Feby.2.1867 and (329), also inscribed with a few artist's notes, watercolour with pen and ink
7.25 x 13.5cm.
* Lear fell in love with Egypt upon his first visit in 1849 and returned eagerly in 1853. Just as enchanted by the abundance of nature on the Nile as he was by the historical sites and the light, Lear worked rapturously on numerous small sketches and studies for larger oils to be devised more fully once back in England. Lear's final visit to the Nile lasted from December 1866 to March 1867 and yielded many more quick sketches (or `outlines` as he liked to call them), often in small or unconventional formats.
