Lot 127
  • 127

Edward Lear

Estimate
10,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Edward Lear
  • Phyle Attica, Greece
  • watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with gum arabic;
    signed with the artist's monogram lower left
  • 165 by 260 mm; 6 1/2 by 10 1/2 in

Provenance

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Lord Houghton (1808-1885);
by descent to the present owner

Literature

Crewe House, London, Inventory, Vol. 2, 1913, p.56, in Lord Crewe's Study;
An Inventory […] of Pictures at West Horsley Place, Surrey, The property of the Marquess of Crewe, 1938, p. 39

 

Condition

This work has survived in good condition.
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