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 /1861’ (lower left)

Literature:

Lady Strachey, ed., Letters of Edward Lear, London, 1907, pp. 185-86, 189, 196, 199-200, 211, 216, 316, no. 186.Lady Strachey, ed., Later Letters of Edward Lear, London, 1911, p. 15.London, Gooden and Fox, Edward Lear 1812-1888 A Loan Exhibition, 1968, p. 29 (note to cat.no. 73).V. Noakes, Edward Lear The Life of a Wanderer, London, 1979, p. 184.V. Noakes, ed., Edward Lear Selected Letters, Oxford, 1988, p. 171.V. Noakes, The Painter Edward Lear, Newton Abbot and London, 1991, p. 78.P. Levi, Edward Lear A Life, London and New York, 2013, p. 184.

Provenance:

Painted for Lady Waldegrave, 1861, and by descent.Lord Waldegrave [Possibly William Waldegrave, 9th Earl Waldegrave]; Christie’s, London, 10 February 1900, lot 17 (28 gns to Tyrell).Francis Fortescue Urquhart, Oxford, by 1911.