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Edward Lear
(British, 1812-1888)
Akroteri from Khanea, Crete

19th Century and British Impressionist Art

27 September 2023, 14:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £14,080 inc. premium

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Edward Lear (British, 1812-1888)

Akroteri from Khanea, Crete
dated '10 AM 17 April 1864' (lower left), numbered '(14)' and inscribed 'from Khanea' (lower right); extensively inscribed with colour notes throughout
pen, ink and watercolour, heightened with touches of white
16 x 37.5cm (6 1/4 x 14 3/4in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection.
Professor R. M. Dawkins.
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 November 1955, including 'A Collection of Mediterranean Views by Edward Lear from the estate of Prof. R.M. Dawkins MA, DLitt, FBA, Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature in the University of Oxford,' lot 54, as Cape Tripiti from Chanea (one of 42 Cretan drawings from the estate of Professor Dawkins)
With Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd.
Colonel L. F. Smeathman, 1956.
Private collection, UK (acquired by the grandfather of the present owner).

Literature
Yale Centre for British Art, 2018, list of works by Lear, written in Lear's hand and that of his executor, Franklin Lushington, no. 12.
Fani-Maria Tsigakou, 1977. M. Phil. thesis, p. 526, pl. 334.

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