The southern end of the Dead Sea

Details

Edward Lear (1812-1888)
The southern end of the Dead Sea
signed with monogram (lower right)
pencil and watercolour
4 x 7 7/8 in. (10.2 x 20 cm.)

Provenance

with Spink, London.

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Lot Essay

Lear travelled from Petra to the Dead Sea in April 1858.

A larger watercolour of this subject is in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

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