Edward Lear (1812-1888)

An Arab Encampment in the Sinai, near Gebal Serbal, Egypt

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Edward Lear (1812-1888)
An Arab Encampment in the Sinai, near Gebal Serbal, Egypt
signed with monogram (lower right)
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour with gum arabic heightened with touches of bodycolour, on paper
4 5/8 x 7¼ in. (11.7 x 18.1 cm.)

Provenance

F.H. Lushington (+); Christie's, London, 19 March 1968, lot 50.

Exhibited

Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Visions of the Ottoman Empire, August - November 1994, unnumbered.

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Lot Essay

Lear reached Sinai in January 1849 remarking in a letter to his sister Ann that 'the excessive & wonderful grandeur of the spot is not to be described, though i hope to shew [sic] you drawings of it - : the adaptation of the whole scene to that recorded in Scripture is equally astonishing' (Letter to his sister Ann, 16 January 1849, in V. Noakes, Edward Lear 1812-1888, London, 1985, p. 148).

According to an old catalogue note, the back of the original frame bore an inscription in the artist's hand which read; 'Gertrude Lushington from her affectionate godfather Edward Lear, August 9th, 1879'.

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