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Edward Lear (1812-88)
View on the Nile c.1858
Watercolour on buff paper | 10.1 x 20.1 cm (whole object) | RCIN 914285
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A watercolour of the Nile, showing several dhows without sails and one laden barge.
Lear travelled to the Middle East a number of times throughout his life. This watercolour was worked up a number of years later from sketches Lear had made on the spot at the request of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who himself undertook an extensive tour in the Middle East in 1862. The Prince thought the artist's sketches made in Palestine and Egypt 'very pretty'.
Provenance
Commissioned by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1865 -
Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Watercolour on buff paper
Measurements
10.1 x 20.1 cm (whole object)
Other number(s)
RL 14285
