Moonlit dhows on the Nile

Details

Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Moonlit dhows on the Nile
signed with monogram (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white on blue paper
4 x 8 in. (10.2 x 20.3 cm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1993, lot 173 (to Agnew's on behalf of the present owner).

Literature

G. Bauer, Le Siècle d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise, Anthèse, 1998, p. 142, pl. 196, illustrated in colour.
W. Hauptman, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, Lausanne, 1999, p. 178, no. 118, illustrated in colour.

Exhibited

Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, L'Âge d'Or de l 'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, 22 January - 24 May 1999, no. 118.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

Lear first visited Egypt in January 1849 when he spent a week in Cairo and visited the pyramids. He found the country 'so very very bright - all the sky blue, and all the earth yellow and white' (Letter to his sister Ann, 11 January 1849, quoted in Vivien Noakes, Edward Lear 1812-1888, London, 1985, p. 113). He returned in 1867.

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