Dec 13, 2018 - Sale 2496

Sale 2496 - Lot 373

Price Realized: $ 3,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
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

Additional Details

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.