Sale 7397
London
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5 June 2007
Price realised
GBP 9,000
Estimate
Edward Lear (1812-1888) Gebal Serbal and Wady Feiran, on the Sinai Peninsula inscribed and dated 'Gebal Serbal, & Wady Feiran./23. January. 1849. 8AM.' (lower left), and numbered '113' (lower right) and further extensively inscribed with colour notes pencil, pen and brown ink, with purple, pink, ochre and blue wash, heightened with touches of white, on grey paper 11½ x 19½ in. (29.2 x 49.5 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, 9 November 1995, lot 193.
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For a note on Lear's first visit to Egypt in 1849 see lot 226.
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