Lot 198
  • 198

Edward Lear

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Edward Lear
  • Syra, Greece
  • Pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil;
    inscribed and dated lower left: Syra. Octr 4 1856, further inscribed with the artist's colour notes
  • 301 by 500 mm

Condition

This watercolour is in good condition and the image is clear and fresh.
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Catalogue Note

Edward Lear travelled extensively throughout Greece in the 1850s and 1860s and his watercolours are an important visual record of a nation in a state of transition from the period of Ottoman rule to that of the country known today. This large, on-the-spot watercolour, was made on 4th October 1856 and shows the island of Syros in the Aegean Sea. Lear focuses on the town of Ano Syros, with its neo-classical buildings, old mansions, white houses and windmills, that cascade down to the harbour below.