A Study of a Rose with Butterflies
A Study of a Rose with Butterflies
A Study of a Rose with ButterfliesSigned lower centre: E. Lear. Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour heightened with white on shaped grey paper, cut out and mounted onto a secondary sheet, with further pencil illustrations on the sheet framing the design21.5 by 18 cm., 8 ½ by 7 in.Provenance: Miss Fraser, circa 1830; K.S. Barrie, 1921; Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 10th July 1990, lot 1 (part); Vivien Noakes (1937-2011) and by descent to 2023){kind=link}
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
A Study of a Rose with Butterflies
Signed lower centre: E. Lear.
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour heightened with white on shaped grey paper, cut out and mounted onto a secondary sheet, with further pencil illustrations on the sheet framing the design
21.5 by 18 cm., 8 ½ by 7 in.
Provenance:
Miss Fraser, circa 1830;
K.S. Barrie, 1921;
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 10th July 1990, lot 1 (part);
Vivien Noakes (1937-2011) and by descent to 2023