Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

Old Master and British Works on Paper, including Portrait Miniatures from the Pohl-Ströher Collection

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Edward Lear

Assiut on the Nile, Egypt

Lot Closed

December 4, 05:39 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Edward Lear

London 1812 - 1888 San Remo

Assiut on the Nile, Egypt


Pen and brown ink and watercolour;

inscribed with artist's colour notes, unframed

138 by 312 mm.

Sale, London, Bonham's, 8 June 2004, lot 58;
with James Mackinnon
Having initially travelled to Egypt in 1849, Lear conducted two further trips to that country, firstly during the winter of 1853-4 and then again between December and March of 1866-7. On both of these later trips he explored the great river Nile.

The town of Assiut is on the western shore of the Nile, approximately half way between Cairo and Luxor.