Ioannina, Greece

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Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Ioannina, Greece
inscribed and dated 'Ioannina 9.A.M. - April.1857' (lower right) and further inscribed with colour notes
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour
5¼ x 8½in. (13.3 x 21.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

Edward Lear travelled extensively through Greece in the 1850s and 1860s and his watercolours are a visual representation of a landscape in transition from the period of Ottoman rule to that of a modern state. This sketch of a group of peasants in native dress on the plains of the northern city of Ioannina depicts a Greece which had all but disappeared by the end of the nineteenth century.

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