View of Lebanon, with a muleteer in the foreground and an extensive lake view beyond

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Edward Lear (1812-1888)
View of Lebanon, with a muleteer in the foreground and an extensive lake view beyond
inscribed and dated '(191) 1858/Lebanon 20 May/The real Birket yamouni' (lower right) further indistinctly inscribed (lower left)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour
6¼ x 9 7/8 in. 5.9 x 25.1 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Lear arrived in Palestine in the Spring of 1858. From Jerusalem he journeyed to Petra, Masada and the Dead Sea. He returned to Jerusalem and then onto Lebanon, arriving back in London by late summer 1858. He wrote to his sister Ann on 14 May 1858, 'I was only looking about me yesterday, but today I shall make a drawing of Mt Lebanon and the Bay and town, which are really lovely as a whole'.

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