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Edward Lear

The Native Bazaar, Kanea, Crete, dated 19 April 1864

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Description

Maker

  • Edward Lear, 1812-1888, English

Title

The Native Bazaar, Kanea, Crete

Year

dated 19 April 1864

Medium

Watercolor, pen and ink, graphite, and gouache on wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • watercolor,
  • white body color,
  • ink

Dimensions

32.4 x 50.3 cm (12 3/4 x 19 13/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

In brown ink, LR:Kanea Crete/19 April.9.AM.1864 (22) Ink notations throughout; at bottom:roofs gray-or

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

73.204.30

Projects & Publications

Publications

How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear

Watercolors by Edward Lear from Rhode Island Collections

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

“Grisogorious Places”

September 14, 2012 - May 19, 2013

In March 1864, Lear traveled from Corfu to Crete, where he wrote in his diary of his difficulty in sketching the bazaar due to the stream of Cretans going in and out. Lear’s shorthand method of depicting them here is unusual in his sketched oeuvre, as is his use of gouache and vibrant colors. Lear was not, in general, a fan of Crete, which he called a “sell” with little of interest except “that of [a] floral nature & the delight of the sweet morning air & thorough calm.” Part of his distaste for the island may have stemmed not from the place itself but from his recent forced departure from the exquisitely beautiful Corfu when Britain ceded sovereignty of the island to Greece.

British Watercolors

September 5 - October 12, 1980

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