Lot Essay
For a similar but expanded finished watercolour view of Lucknow, for which this present drawing is likely to have been a sketch, see Lucknow, 1873 in the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, The Houghton Library, Harvard University, illustrated in Edward Lear 1812-1888, at the Royal Academy of Arts, colour plate p. 66., by Vivien Noakes, London, 1985