Property from a British Private Collection
Edward Lear
Topolia, Crete
Lot Closed
July 6, 05:15 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a British Private Collection
Edward Lear
London 1812 - 1888 San Remo
Topolia, Crete
Pen and brown ink and pencil with watercolour;
inscribed lower right: Topolia / 28. April 1864. 3 P.M. / (56), further inscirbed with colour notes
334 by 506 mm
Lawrence Lacey, Milian (according to a pencil inscription verso);
sale, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Anderson and Garland, 1988,
where acquired by the parents of the present owners
sale, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Anderson and Garland, 1988,
where acquired by the parents of the present owners
The figure seated amongst the rocks is Lear's manservant Giorgos Kokkalis, whom he had first met on Corfu in 1848.
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