Live Auction 7891Victorian & British Impressionist Pictures Including Drawings and Watercolours
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Lot 70

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Arzista, Palestine

Closed15 December 2010

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GBP 7,500

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Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Arzista, Palestine
inscribed and dated 'Arzista/15.April.8.30 AM./1857' (lower right) and with scattered colour notes
pencil and pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with touches of white, on blue-grey paper
9¾ x 13¾ in. (24.8 x 34,9 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 March 1990, lot 162, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

The present watercolour was executed during Lear's tour of Middle East in 1857. He arrived in Palestine in March and travelled south through Jerusalem arriving in Petra by 13th April. Three days later he was at the Dead Sea and from there he moved on to Masada. Lear returned to Jerusalem and visited Jericho before travelling on to the Lebanon at the beginning of May.