2. Numbered drawings of Crete by Edward Lear
51 - 100 : 27 April to 9 May, 1864
Yale 43.
Note : Where Lear refers in his Journal to making one of these drawings, this is shown after the drawing number below by J
Each entry has the following details where available :
Lear’s drawing number
Location illustrated
Date and time of drawing in 1864
Size
Present owner, provenance and other notes
51
Capo Spada from above Nopia
27/4 12.30 p.m.
19.0 x 29.0 cm
Genn 19
FMT 532.
Yale 38.
52
Topolia
28/4 7 a.m.
Yale 40. No other details found.
53 J
Topolia
28/4 9 a.m.
34.9 x 52.7 cm
National Galleries of Scotland ID D 5551.31 acquired 2003 on bequest of Sir Steven Runciman.
(exhibited 1991, National Galleries of Scotland – Watercolours by Edward Lear from the collection of The Hon. Sir Steven Runciman CH cat.37; exhibited November/December 1951, Walker’s Galleries – Edward Lear, Watercolours of Greece, lent by the Hon. Steven Runciman)
Buff paper. Probably FMT 533, but no Lear number, and size shown as 30.5 x 43.4 cm but stated Sir Steven Runciman.
Yale 41.
54
Capo Spada, from below Topolia
28/4 1.30 p.m.
16.8 x 36.8 cm
Private collection (from estate of Prof. R.M. Dawkins, sold by Sotheby’s, 30 November 1955, lot 68, sold W.C.Wilder £25). Lear drawing no. could be 54 or 55 as drawing not seen.
Yale 42.
55 No details found
56
Topolia
28/4 3 p.m.
Yale 43. No other details found.
57 J
Topolia
28 & 29/4 8 a.m.
35 x 50.2 cm
Private collection (sold Christie’s London, 21 November 2002, lot 69 illustrated, £5,975 incl. premium, on buff paper).
Yale 44.
58 J
Palaiokastro
29/4 9.35 a.m.
22.3 x 35.0 cm
Private collection (sold by W/S Fine Art Ltd. 2005; previously sold to Fine Art Society at Christies, London, 3 June 2004, lot 165 £6,500, wrongly titled Palaiukhora; previously sold by Mallams, Oxford, 3 October 2003, lot 121, £3,200, on blue paper). Palaiokastro will have been the local name for Polyrinia.
Yale 45 but date only and Lushington titles 'Kissamos - and Palaeocastro'.
59 J
Palaiokastron (Polyrinia)
29/4 2 p.m.
35.2 x 52.1 cm
Collection of Mrs Maro Seferiades (illus. RF p. 48)
(Prev. acquired by Hon. Steven Runciman from estate of Prof. R.M. Dawkins, sold by Sotheby’s, 30 November 1955, lot 69 with another item, £40).
FMT 534 – coll. of George Seferis.
Yale 46.
Illustrated in RF (p.48) with apparent number 50, but probably 59 with number trimmed, as 50 would place it in wrong date sequence. Lear notes ‘Make it sunrise’ on fine mountain scene. He also gives the correct place name in Greek in brackets, though this does not appear in his Journal.
60 No details found
Lear was travelling from Dhrapania, via Spilia and Platania back to Halepa on 30 April. He did no drawing on 1 May, but did draw views of Hania on 2 May. His watercolour 'Flowing like a crystal river' (see watercolours, no.5) was also titled Platania, so there may have been an original drawing made on 30 April - or the watercolour may relate to the 'Platania (river)' drawing of April 26.
61 No details found
62 No details found
63 No details found
64 No details found
65 No details found
66
Halepa, near Canea
2/5
Yale 47. No other details found.
67 J
Aptera
3/5 3 p.m.
36.0 x 54.0 cm
Genn 11, buff paper (illus. FRW 46, also exhib. Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts 1968, cat. 43).
FMT 535 pl.335.
Yale 48.
68 J
Akroteri from Aptera
3/5 2.30 p.m. and 4/5 7 a.m.
35.5 x 54.5 cm
Genn 4, buff paper, ‘rain, dark stormy’
FMT 536 – ‘squills – houses of Suda all oker except 2 or 3 white’.
Yale 49.
69 J
Aptera
4/5 7 a.m.
34.5 x 51.0 cm
Genn 15 (illus. FRW 47)
FMT 537 pl.336 – exhib. Athens 1966, no.6 – ‘squills – O O light on the sea’
Yale 50.
70
Suda
4/5 7.30 a.m.
10.5 x 30.5 cm
Private collection (sold Sothebys 16 November 1989, lot 115 (titled 'On the Nile in Sudan' (sic)), and previously Dawkins collection, sold as part of lot 69 to Hon. S. Runciman, described as 'Island in the Gulf of Suda, 4/5, 7.30 a.m.)
Yale 58 (4/5, no time, ' Drepano - Akrotiri - Suda' - possibly two or three drawings, including 70), probably with Lear 79.)
71 J
Aptera, Apokorona
4/5 6.15 a.m.
15.0 x 23.0 cm
Genn 13
FMT 538 – exhib. ATH no.4
Yale 55, probably with Lear 76.
72 J
Aptera
4/5 6.30 a.m.
35.0 x 51.0 cm
Genn 14
FMT 539 – exhib. ATH no.5 – ‘totality – Ida full large – Ida pale blue’.
Yale 51.
73 J
From Aptera
4/5 5.30 a.m.
36.5 x 54.5 cm
Genn 12 , buff paper (illus. FRW 48)
FMT 540 pl. 336a – ‘gray stones green and gray herbidges – but the best effect was on the previous evening’.
Yale 52. (Lushington adds '(Sphakian range)' though not noted on drawing).
74 J
From Exopolis
5/5 5.30 a.m.
35.5 x 54.0 cm
Genn 28 (illus. FRW 49)
FMT 541 pl.337 – exhib. ATH no.7 – ‘plain of various greens’.
Yale 53.
75 J
Exopoli
5/5 6 a.m.
35.0 x 54.5 cm
Genn 29, buff paper (illus. FRW 50)
FMT 542 pl.338 – exhib. ATH no.8 – ‘whole scene dark except sea & sky & Ida line of mountains’.
Yale 54.
76 J
Near Exopoli
5/5
24.1 x 35.5 cm
Private collection (exhib. Craddock and Barnard 1937, One Hundred Landscape Drawings by Edward Lear, cat. 62 illustrated, ‘a beautiful and colourful sketch’, 15 guineas).
Probably Yale 55 with Lear 71.
77 J (see Pictures)
Lake Kourna
5/5 9 a.m.
34.5 x 54 cm
Genn 59, blue grey paper (illus. RF p.56, FRW 51 and Thess 63; included in National Bank of Crete calendar 1966)
FMT 543 pl.339 – exhib. ATH no.9 – size given as 24.5*39.5 - ‘all gritty gray green – echo of green oleander – clay stones’.
Yale 56.
78
Episkopi
5/5 4 p.m.
8 x 35.3 cm
Private collection (sold ?Christies London, 4 July 2018, lot 226, prev. Christie’s London, 12 November 1996, lot 90, prov. Professor Dawkins, £2,990 incl. premium).
Possibly Yale 58 - see notes to Lear 79 below.
79 (see Pictures)
Dhrepanos and Akrotiri from Episkopi
5/5 3 p.m. (date possibly altered from 4/5 - see below)
13.8 x 22.9 cm
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, ID 74.107.37, donated 1974 (prev. sold 1956 to private collector by Agnew who acquired from estate of Prof.R.M.Dawkins, sold Sotheby’s 30 November 1955, lot 70 with other studies, £40 (exhib. Agnew’s 1956, 83rd Annual Exhibition of Watercolour Drawings; Newport, RI, Newport Art Association1965, Watercolors by Edward Lear). At the Dawkins sale and subsequently, this drawing has been entitled ‘Near Caruba’. However it is probable that Lear’s note ‘Caruba’ refers to the black tint intended for the prominent tree, or perhaps to it being a carob tree. He also gives the location shown against this number.
Yale 58 (mount which also probably bore Lear 70, as titled by Lushington 'Drepanno - Akrotiri - Suda, though date given as 4/5. At the Dawkins sale Lear 79 was sold 'with other studies', probably on same mount and possibly including Lear 78, though Episkopi not in description)
80
Petres Kamara river
6/5 7 a.m.
7.0 x 13.0 cm
Private collection. FMT 544 pl.341
Yale 59.
81
Rettimo coast, bay of Armyro
6/5 9.30 a.m.
8.0 x 27.5 cm
Genn 74 (illus. RF p.59)
FMT 545 – exhib. ATH no.10
Yale - ? not on list - so probably mounted with Lear 80 or 82.
82 J
Rethymnos
6/5 10.30, 11 a.m.
18.5 x 51.0 cm
Genn 75, buff paper
FMT 546 – ‘wild time – earth and stones, see Syracuse’
Yale 60.
83 J
Rethymnos
6/5 1 p.m.
35.5 x 54.5 cm
Genn 76, buff paper (included in National Bank of Crete calendar 1966)
FMT 547 – exhib. ATH no.11 – brown paper.
Yale 61.
84 No details found
85 No details found
86
Possibly Dawkins, part of Lot 71 – Retimo in the Gulf of Armyro, 7/5, 9 a.m.
87 J
Perivolia, Rethymnon
7/5
8 x 26 cm
Private collection (sold Christie’s London, 12 November 1996, lot 89, prov. Professor Dawkins, £4,025 incl. premium).
88
Rettimo
7/5 11 a.m.
9.0 x 53.5 cm
Genn 81 – wrongly dated on drawing as 8/5
FMT 552 – cream paper - ‘lepers’
Probably Yale 62, with Lear 91.
89
Rethymnos, Perivolia
7/5 2 p.m.
8.5 x 23 cm
Genn 82 (illus. RF p.60 and Thess 66) – wrongly dated on drawing as 8/5
FMT 553 – ‘large mulberry trees – sloes veggibles’.
Probably Yale 64, with Lear 92.
90 (see Pictures)
Rethymnos
7/5 6.30 p.m.
35 x 55 cm
Genn 77 (illus. RF p.61, FRW 53 and Thess 65; included in National Bank of Crete calendar 1966)
FMT 548 pl.342 - size given as 15.2 x 43.2 cm – cream paper – ‘white chalky road’.
Yale 65.
91
Rethymnos
7/5 8 a.m.
18 x 53 cm
Genn 79 (illus. RF p.60, FRW 52 and Thess 64) Not shown in 2nd edition of RF
FMT 549 pl.340 – size given as 14.2 x 42.4 cm- cream paper – exhib. ATH no.12 – ‘banx’.
Probably Yale 62, with Lear 88
92
Rethymnos
7/5 7 a.m.
17.0 x 51.5 cm
Genn 78
FMT 550 – cream paper – ‘tooma white’
Probably Yale 64, with Lear 89.
93
Rethymnos
8/5 10 a.m.
35.0 x 54.5 cm
Genn 80, buff paper
FMT 551– exhib. ATH no.16 – ‘houses of Perivolia all okery gray’, also (Greek text and script) ‘there are beeeaters who eat the bees’.
Yale 66.
94
Rettimo
8/5
Yale 63. No other details found.
95 J
Rethymnos
9/5 6 a.m.
18.0 x 50.0 cm
Genn 83, buff paper
FMT 554
Yale 67, probably with Lear 96
96 J
Rettimo
9/5 6.30 a.m.
7.5 x 29.0 cm
Genn 84 (illus. RF p.62)
FMT 555
Yale 67, probably with Lear 95.
97
Rethymnon
9/5 8 a.m.
12.0 x 35.0 cm
Genn 85 (illus. RF p.63 and Thess 67)
FMT 556
Yale 69, probably with Lear 100
98
Rethymnon
9/5 9 a.m.
11.0 x 35.0 cm
Genn 87
FMT 557
Yale 68, probably with Lear 99.
99 J
Rettimo
9/5 7 a.m.
17.5 x 50.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard. Gift of William Osgood Field 1942.
Lear 68, probably with Lear 98.
100
Rettimo
9/5 8 a.m.
16.5 x 49.5 cm
Genn 86
FMT 558 – ‘Rodo’
Yale 69, probably with Lear 97
Note : Where Lear refers in his Journal to making one of these drawings, this is shown after the drawing number below by J
Each entry has the following details where available :
Lear’s drawing number
Location illustrated
Date and time of drawing in 1864
Size
Present owner, provenance and other notes
51
Capo Spada from above Nopia
27/4 12.30 p.m.
19.0 x 29.0 cm
Genn 19
FMT 532.
Yale 38.
52
Topolia
28/4 7 a.m.
Yale 40. No other details found.
53 J
Topolia
28/4 9 a.m.
34.9 x 52.7 cm
National Galleries of Scotland ID D 5551.31 acquired 2003 on bequest of Sir Steven Runciman.
(exhibited 1991, National Galleries of Scotland – Watercolours by Edward Lear from the collection of The Hon. Sir Steven Runciman CH cat.37; exhibited November/December 1951, Walker’s Galleries – Edward Lear, Watercolours of Greece, lent by the Hon. Steven Runciman)
Buff paper. Probably FMT 533, but no Lear number, and size shown as 30.5 x 43.4 cm but stated Sir Steven Runciman.
Yale 41.
54
Capo Spada, from below Topolia
28/4 1.30 p.m.
16.8 x 36.8 cm
Private collection (from estate of Prof. R.M. Dawkins, sold by Sotheby’s, 30 November 1955, lot 68, sold W.C.Wilder £25). Lear drawing no. could be 54 or 55 as drawing not seen.
Yale 42.
55 No details found
56
Topolia
28/4 3 p.m.
Yale 43. No other details found.
57 J
Topolia
28 & 29/4 8 a.m.
35 x 50.2 cm
Private collection (sold Christie’s London, 21 November 2002, lot 69 illustrated, £5,975 incl. premium, on buff paper).
Yale 44.
58 J
Palaiokastro
29/4 9.35 a.m.
22.3 x 35.0 cm
Private collection (sold by W/S Fine Art Ltd. 2005; previously sold to Fine Art Society at Christies, London, 3 June 2004, lot 165 £6,500, wrongly titled Palaiukhora; previously sold by Mallams, Oxford, 3 October 2003, lot 121, £3,200, on blue paper). Palaiokastro will have been the local name for Polyrinia.
Yale 45 but date only and Lushington titles 'Kissamos - and Palaeocastro'.
59 J
Palaiokastron (Polyrinia)
29/4 2 p.m.
35.2 x 52.1 cm
Collection of Mrs Maro Seferiades (illus. RF p. 48)
(Prev. acquired by Hon. Steven Runciman from estate of Prof. R.M. Dawkins, sold by Sotheby’s, 30 November 1955, lot 69 with another item, £40).
FMT 534 – coll. of George Seferis.
Yale 46.
Illustrated in RF (p.48) with apparent number 50, but probably 59 with number trimmed, as 50 would place it in wrong date sequence. Lear notes ‘Make it sunrise’ on fine mountain scene. He also gives the correct place name in Greek in brackets, though this does not appear in his Journal.
60 No details found
Lear was travelling from Dhrapania, via Spilia and Platania back to Halepa on 30 April. He did no drawing on 1 May, but did draw views of Hania on 2 May. His watercolour 'Flowing like a crystal river' (see watercolours, no.5) was also titled Platania, so there may have been an original drawing made on 30 April - or the watercolour may relate to the 'Platania (river)' drawing of April 26.
61 No details found
62 No details found
63 No details found
64 No details found
65 No details found
66
Halepa, near Canea
2/5
Yale 47. No other details found.
67 J
Aptera
3/5 3 p.m.
36.0 x 54.0 cm
Genn 11, buff paper (illus. FRW 46, also exhib. Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts 1968, cat. 43).
FMT 535 pl.335.
Yale 48.
68 J
Akroteri from Aptera
3/5 2.30 p.m. and 4/5 7 a.m.
35.5 x 54.5 cm
Genn 4, buff paper, ‘rain, dark stormy’
FMT 536 – ‘squills – houses of Suda all oker except 2 or 3 white’.
Yale 49.
69 J
Aptera
4/5 7 a.m.
34.5 x 51.0 cm
Genn 15 (illus. FRW 47)
FMT 537 pl.336 – exhib. Athens 1966, no.6 – ‘squills – O O light on the sea’
Yale 50.
70
Suda
4/5 7.30 a.m.
10.5 x 30.5 cm
Private collection (sold Sothebys 16 November 1989, lot 115 (titled 'On the Nile in Sudan' (sic)), and previously Dawkins collection, sold as part of lot 69 to Hon. S. Runciman, described as 'Island in the Gulf of Suda, 4/5, 7.30 a.m.)
Yale 58 (4/5, no time, ' Drepano - Akrotiri - Suda' - possibly two or three drawings, including 70), probably with Lear 79.)
71 J
Aptera, Apokorona
4/5 6.15 a.m.
15.0 x 23.0 cm
Genn 13
FMT 538 – exhib. ATH no.4
Yale 55, probably with Lear 76.
72 J
Aptera
4/5 6.30 a.m.
35.0 x 51.0 cm
Genn 14
FMT 539 – exhib. ATH no.5 – ‘totality – Ida full large – Ida pale blue’.
Yale 51.
73 J
From Aptera
4/5 5.30 a.m.
36.5 x 54.5 cm
Genn 12 , buff paper (illus. FRW 48)
FMT 540 pl. 336a – ‘gray stones green and gray herbidges – but the best effect was on the previous evening’.
Yale 52. (Lushington adds '(Sphakian range)' though not noted on drawing).
74 J
From Exopolis
5/5 5.30 a.m.
35.5 x 54.0 cm
Genn 28 (illus. FRW 49)
FMT 541 pl.337 – exhib. ATH no.7 – ‘plain of various greens’.
Yale 53.
75 J
Exopoli
5/5 6 a.m.
35.0 x 54.5 cm
Genn 29, buff paper (illus. FRW 50)
FMT 542 pl.338 – exhib. ATH no.8 – ‘whole scene dark except sea & sky & Ida line of mountains’.
Yale 54.
76 J
Near Exopoli
5/5
24.1 x 35.5 cm
Private collection (exhib. Craddock and Barnard 1937, One Hundred Landscape Drawings by Edward Lear, cat. 62 illustrated, ‘a beautiful and colourful sketch’, 15 guineas).
Probably Yale 55 with Lear 71.
77 J (see Pictures)
Lake Kourna
5/5 9 a.m.
34.5 x 54 cm
Genn 59, blue grey paper (illus. RF p.56, FRW 51 and Thess 63; included in National Bank of Crete calendar 1966)
FMT 543 pl.339 – exhib. ATH no.9 – size given as 24.5*39.5 - ‘all gritty gray green – echo of green oleander – clay stones’.
Yale 56.
78
Episkopi
5/5 4 p.m.
8 x 35.3 cm
Private collection (sold ?Christies London, 4 July 2018, lot 226, prev. Christie’s London, 12 November 1996, lot 90, prov. Professor Dawkins, £2,990 incl. premium).
Possibly Yale 58 - see notes to Lear 79 below.
79 (see Pictures)
Dhrepanos and Akrotiri from Episkopi
5/5 3 p.m. (date possibly altered from 4/5 - see below)
13.8 x 22.9 cm
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, ID 74.107.37, donated 1974 (prev. sold 1956 to private collector by Agnew who acquired from estate of Prof.R.M.Dawkins, sold Sotheby’s 30 November 1955, lot 70 with other studies, £40 (exhib. Agnew’s 1956, 83rd Annual Exhibition of Watercolour Drawings; Newport, RI, Newport Art Association1965, Watercolors by Edward Lear). At the Dawkins sale and subsequently, this drawing has been entitled ‘Near Caruba’. However it is probable that Lear’s note ‘Caruba’ refers to the black tint intended for the prominent tree, or perhaps to it being a carob tree. He also gives the location shown against this number.
Yale 58 (mount which also probably bore Lear 70, as titled by Lushington 'Drepanno - Akrotiri - Suda, though date given as 4/5. At the Dawkins sale Lear 79 was sold 'with other studies', probably on same mount and possibly including Lear 78, though Episkopi not in description)
80
Petres Kamara river
6/5 7 a.m.
7.0 x 13.0 cm
Private collection. FMT 544 pl.341
Yale 59.
81
Rettimo coast, bay of Armyro
6/5 9.30 a.m.
8.0 x 27.5 cm
Genn 74 (illus. RF p.59)
FMT 545 – exhib. ATH no.10
Yale - ? not on list - so probably mounted with Lear 80 or 82.
82 J
Rethymnos
6/5 10.30, 11 a.m.
18.5 x 51.0 cm
Genn 75, buff paper
FMT 546 – ‘wild time – earth and stones, see Syracuse’
Yale 60.
83 J
Rethymnos
6/5 1 p.m.
35.5 x 54.5 cm
Genn 76, buff paper (included in National Bank of Crete calendar 1966)
FMT 547 – exhib. ATH no.11 – brown paper.
Yale 61.
84 No details found
85 No details found
86
Possibly Dawkins, part of Lot 71 – Retimo in the Gulf of Armyro, 7/5, 9 a.m.
87 J
Perivolia, Rethymnon
7/5
8 x 26 cm
Private collection (sold Christie’s London, 12 November 1996, lot 89, prov. Professor Dawkins, £4,025 incl. premium).
88
Rettimo
7/5 11 a.m.
9.0 x 53.5 cm
Genn 81 – wrongly dated on drawing as 8/5
FMT 552 – cream paper - ‘lepers’
Probably Yale 62, with Lear 91.
89
Rethymnos, Perivolia
7/5 2 p.m.
8.5 x 23 cm
Genn 82 (illus. RF p.60 and Thess 66) – wrongly dated on drawing as 8/5
FMT 553 – ‘large mulberry trees – sloes veggibles’.
Probably Yale 64, with Lear 92.
90 (see Pictures)
Rethymnos
7/5 6.30 p.m.
35 x 55 cm
Genn 77 (illus. RF p.61, FRW 53 and Thess 65; included in National Bank of Crete calendar 1966)
FMT 548 pl.342 - size given as 15.2 x 43.2 cm – cream paper – ‘white chalky road’.
Yale 65.
91
Rethymnos
7/5 8 a.m.
18 x 53 cm
Genn 79 (illus. RF p.60, FRW 52 and Thess 64) Not shown in 2nd edition of RF
FMT 549 pl.340 – size given as 14.2 x 42.4 cm- cream paper – exhib. ATH no.12 – ‘banx’.
Probably Yale 62, with Lear 88
92
Rethymnos
7/5 7 a.m.
17.0 x 51.5 cm
Genn 78
FMT 550 – cream paper – ‘tooma white’
Probably Yale 64, with Lear 89.
93
Rethymnos
8/5 10 a.m.
35.0 x 54.5 cm
Genn 80, buff paper
FMT 551– exhib. ATH no.16 – ‘houses of Perivolia all okery gray’, also (Greek text and script) ‘there are beeeaters who eat the bees’.
Yale 66.
94
Rettimo
8/5
Yale 63. No other details found.
95 J
Rethymnos
9/5 6 a.m.
18.0 x 50.0 cm
Genn 83, buff paper
FMT 554
Yale 67, probably with Lear 96
96 J
Rettimo
9/5 6.30 a.m.
7.5 x 29.0 cm
Genn 84 (illus. RF p.62)
FMT 555
Yale 67, probably with Lear 95.
97
Rethymnon
9/5 8 a.m.
12.0 x 35.0 cm
Genn 85 (illus. RF p.63 and Thess 67)
FMT 556
Yale 69, probably with Lear 100
98
Rethymnon
9/5 9 a.m.
11.0 x 35.0 cm
Genn 87
FMT 557
Yale 68, probably with Lear 99.
99 J
Rettimo
9/5 7 a.m.
17.5 x 50.5 cm
Houghton Library, Harvard. Gift of William Osgood Field 1942.
Lear 68, probably with Lear 98.
100
Rettimo
9/5 8 a.m.
16.5 x 49.5 cm
Genn 86
FMT 558 – ‘Rodo’
Yale 69, probably with Lear 97