LEAR EDWARD Zante

Sale 2496 - Lot 373

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LEAR, EDWARD. Zante. Brown ink, wash and graphite landscape sketch of Zakynthos on wove paper with partial "[Canso]n Freres" watermark. Inscribed and dated April 2[-], 1848. 11x18 inches sheet size; cleaned and deacidified. Greece, 1848

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The drawing fits closely to a sequential group in the holdings of Harvard University: vistas of Zante from Lear's first trip to Greece dated April 1848 and each loosely numbered in pencil "23-26"; the present sketch is penciled "21" in a similar manner at the lower right.