The Ingram Collection - Drawings from the Collection of the late Michael Ingram

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Lot 230
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John Frederick Lewis, R.A. 1805-1876

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Description

  • John Frederick Lewis, R.A.
  • Study of Bedouins by a dwelling
  • watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour on buff paper, with a watercolour of bedouins by a rocky outcrop verso

Provenance

Purchased from P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1962

Exhibited

Guildford, John Frederick Lewis, October 1977, no.93

Catalogue Note

Lewis spent nine years in Egypt from 1841 until 1850.  During this time he worked mainly in Cairo, but he did make an expedition into the Sinai desert, to St Catherine's Mount and Jebel Mousa in 1842.  Lewis made a number of drawings during this trip, including the present work (see Major-General Michael Lewis, C.B.E., John Frederick Lewis, R.A., 1978, nos.394-405)