Moonlit dhows on the Nile

細節

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.)

來源

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

出版

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.

展覽

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

注意事項

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

拍品專文

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.