Between Karahalli and Laura, Turkey

Details

Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Between Karahalli and Laura, Turkey
inscribed and dated 'between Karahalla [sic]/& Laura./Septr 5th-1856' (lower right) and further inscribed with colour notes
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour
5¾ x 8¾ in. (14.8 x 22.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Davis Galleries, New York.

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Lot Essay

Lear is recorded as travelling in Turkey as part of a tour he made of Malta, Greece, Albania, Egypt and Sinai between 1848 and 1849. He left England again in 1853 and by 1855 he was in in Corfu, where he remained until the summer of 1857. It seems, therefore, that Lear did not execute this drawing from life.

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