Edfu at sunset

細節

Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Edfu at sunset
inscribed and dated 'Edfoo Sunset/6.30 pm./Feby. 11./1854' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour
6 x 9 in. (15.2 x 22.8 cm.)

來源

Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 15 November 1988, lot 44.

出版

G. Bauer, Le Siècle d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise, Anthèse, 1998, p. 145, pl. 201, illustrated in colour.
W. Hauptman, L'Âge d'Or de l'Aquarelle Anglaise 1770-1900, Lausanne, 1999, p. 176, no. 116, 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. 116.

注意事項

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

拍品專文

Lear visited Edfu on his second trip to Egypt in 1853-4. After spending ten happy days at Philae, he left Aswan on 9 February 1854 and travelled north down the Nile. He reached Silsileh on the evening of 10 February; he wrote to his sister Ann: '... on the 11th we got as far as Edfoo, where, on great mounds of dust stands an ... enormous temple, overlooking the village below & a magnificent extent ... north & south, of the Nile, & the desert hills, & the astonishing plain of green corn', having drawn the temple Komombo the same day (P. Hofer, Edward Lear as a Landscape Draughtsman, Cambridge Mass., 1967, pl. 52).