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Lot Essay
Lear visited Montenegro in April 1866 during a tour of the Dalmatian coast on his way from Malta to Trieste, and subsequently back to London. On 26 April he described in his diary the walk up the mountainside from the coastal town of Cattaro: 'a mile or so along the Lake, for so it seemed...The vast semicircle of mountain crags is most striking' (see R. Pitman, Edward Lear's Tennyson, Manchester and New York, 1988, p. 137).
The present drawing is a study for a finished watercolour of the same view purchased by Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, and a close friend and patron of Lear, and was sold in these Rooms, 17 November 1992, lot 100 (£63,800).
The present drawing is a study for a finished watercolour of the same view purchased by Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook, and a close friend and patron of Lear, and was sold in these Rooms, 17 November 1992, lot 100 (£63,800).