4.  Watercolours based on drawings by Lear made in 1864

Each entry has the following details where available :

Location illustrated
Date of drawing in 1864
Size
Present owner, provenance and other notes


The numbering of this list is for reference purposes only, and is not Lear's numbering.

1
Canea
15/4
17.4 x 37.4 cm
Ashmolean Museum, painted in 1876 with Lear monogram, bequeathed by Rev Henry Fanshawe Tozer, ID 1916.47   (illus. RF p.31, exhib. Ashmolean Museum 1995, Edward Lear – Drawings and Watercolours cat 50).   FMT 668, pl.368

2
Monastery of Arkhadi
20/5
10.1 x 20.2 cm
Ashmolean Museum, painted in 1876 with Lear monogram, bequeathed by Rev Henry Fanshawe Tozer, ID 1916.66   (illus. RF p.91, exhib. Ashmolean Museum 1995, Edward Lear – Drawings and Watercolours cat 51).  Based on Lear 157.   FMT 669, pl.367

3
Mount Ida
24 & 25/5
17.4 x 37.5 cm
Ashmolean Museum, painted in 1876 with Lear monogram, bequeathed by Rev Henry Fanshawe Tozer, ID 1916.43   (illus. RF p.87, exhib. Ashmolean Museum 1995, Edward Lear – Drawings and Watercolours cat 52).   FMT 698, pl. 394

4
Monastery of Gonia
Undated
(Lear visited 26/27 April)
17.1 x 37.3 cm
Ashmolean Museum, bequeathed by Rev Henry Fanshawe Tozer, ID 1916.48 (exhib. Ashmolean Museum 1995, Edward Lear – Drawings and Watercolours cat 53)
FMT 663

5
Flowing like a crystal river, Platania, Crete
Undated
9.5 x 14.6 cm
Private collection (illus. RF p.50, provenance Tennyson Research Centre , Lincoln (FMT) and Agnew (RF)).  One of a series of drawings Lear made for a projected edition of Tennyson’s poems to illustrate the poem ‘The Poet’s Mind’, but unused. A shorter edition was published in1889 after Lear’s death by Boussod, Valadon & Co, London with 22 Lear works illustrating three poems.  Based on List 2, no.25.
FMT 714

6
Suda Bay
Undated
18.0 x 36.0 cm
Private collection (sold Sothebys, London, 28 November 1974, lot 85, £2,600 ; prov. Prof. G.M. Trevelyan and family).   Lear monogram;  possibly based on Lear 7

7
Suda Bay
Undated
16.5 x 26.0 cm
FMT 699, pl.395 – private collection;  Lear monogram; based on Lear 7 (possibly same as 6 above, though measurements differ ?)

8
Gate of Canea
Undated
11.5 x 18.5 cm
The image is of Porta Retimiota, on the south side of the city's Venetian walls. Private collection (sold Sotheby’s London, 23 October 1991, lot 154 illus., £10,500;  prev. sold Sotheby’s London 11 July 1991, lot 221, £3,600)

9
View of Mount Ida
Undated
24.1 x 40.5 cm
FMT 698, pl.394 – private collection; Lear monogram

10
Plains of Canea
Undated
17.8 x 37.4 cm
NGS 17.1 x 36.8
National Galleries of Scotland ID D 5551.32, acquired 2003 on bequest  of Sir Steven Runciman, buff paper.  Purchased from Fine Art Society 1951.  (Exhib. by Fine Art Society June 1979  The Rediscovery of Greece, cat. 132.  . Also exhib. by National Galleries of Scotland 1991., cat. 38)

11
Canea
Undated
17 x 36.5 cm
Private collection, sold Sotheby's 19 November 1992, est £5-7.000

12
Mount Ida
Undated
17 x 31 cm
Private collection, from Agnew's