Mount Sinai, Egypt

Name: EDWARD LEAR (LONDON 1812-1888 SAN REMO)
Brand: Mount Sinai, Egypt
Price: 4500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 5,625

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GBP 5,000 - GBP 8,000

Closed: 8 Dec 2020

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EDWARD LEAR (LONDON 1812-1888 SAN REMO)

Mount Sinai, Egypt

Price Realised GBP 5,625

Closed: 8 Dec 2020

Price Realised GBP 5,625

Closed: 8 Dec 2020

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EDWARD LEAR (LONDON 1812-1888 SAN REMO)
Mount Sinai, Egypt
inscribed, dated and numbered 'Sinai/ Jan^y.27.1849./ 9.-10.-a.m./ 155' (lower right) and further inscribed with artist's notes
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour heightened with touches of white on blue-grey paper
7 x 11³⁄₈ in. (17.8 x 28.9 cm.)

with Spink, London.

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Lot Essay

From early in 1848, Lear was thinking about a trip to Egypt. After nine months of travelling through the eastern Mediterranean, Lear finally reached Egypt in January 1849. The visit was brief: in Cairo he met up with his friend John Cross, with whom he set out for Sinai and Palestine. They reached Sinai in January 1849 and spent three nights at the monastery there. Lear remarked in a letter to his sister Ann that 'the excessive & wonderful grandeur of the spot is not to be described, though i hope to shew [sic] you drawings of it - : the adaptation of the whole scene to that recorded in Scripture is equally astonishing' (Letter to his sister Ann, 16 January 1849, in V. Noakes, , London, 1985, p. 148).