Edward Lear (1812-1888)

A view of the Qutb Minar, Delhi

細節

Edward Lear (1812-1888)
A view of the Qutb Minar, Delhi
signed, inscribed and dated 'Delhi, 13 March 1874/E.Lear' (lower edge)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with white, on blue-grey paper
5.3/8 x 8 in. (13.6 x 21.6 cm.)

來源

with Colnaghi's, London.

拍品專文

Lear stayed for 10 days in Delhi and described how he passed his time '..making Delhineations of the Dehlicate architecture as is all impressed on my mind as inDehlibly as the Dehliterious quality of the water of that city' (The Later Letters of Edward Lear, ed. Lady Strachey, London, 1911, p. 171).