Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Suda Bay, Khani, Crete

Details

Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Suda Bay, Khani, Crete
inscribed '(II.B.)/Khane' and further inscribed 'II.B' (lower right)
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour, heightened with white, on buff paper
6 x 9.7/8 in. (15.9 x 25.1 cm.)

Provenance

Winifred Lamb and by bequest to the present owner.

Lot Essay

Khani, also known as Canea, is a province of Crete. In the early 1860s Lear lived on Corfu and visited Crete in 1864. A watercolour of Suda Bay is dated May 24, 1864 (see Edward Lear in Greece, exhibition catatalogue, 1971, p. 14, no. 65 illustrated p. 79).

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