LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

18.50 in. (47.00 cm.) (height) by 29.72 in. (75.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with monogram and dated ‘EL /1859’ (lower right) and inscribed ‘Jerusalem looking North West’ (on the stretcher) and with inscription ‘Jerusalem looking North West/Painted by Edward Lear from drawings/made there in 1858 for Lord Clermont/Edward Lear 1858 9’ (on a label attached to the reverse)

Literature:

Lady Strachey (ed.), Letters of Edward Lear, London, 1907, pp. 133, 315, no. 154.V. Noakes, Edward Lear 1812-1888, London, , 1985, p. 150 (under cat.no. 56).V. Noakes, ed., Edward Lear Selected Letters, Oxford, 1988, p. 299, n. 153.

Provenance:

Painted for Lord Clermont, 1858/9, and by descent.