A view of the city of Hebron with camels and figures in the foreground

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EDWARD LEAR (LONDON 1812-1888 SAN REMO)
A view of the city of Hebron with camels and figures in the foreground
signed 'Edw^d Lear del.' (lower left) and inscribed 'Hebron.' (lower right).
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour on blue/grey paper
6 x 9 1/8 in. (15.3 x 23.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Leger Galleries, London, December 1982.
Anonymous sale; Sworders, Stansted Mountfitchet, 4 April 2023, lot 230, where acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Lear visited Hebron in April, 1858. A related sketch is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. WA1942.168), and another watercolour from the same viewpoint is in the Royal Collection (D. Millar, The Victorian Watercolours and Drawings in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, London, 1985, vol. I, p. 535).

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