Lear sticks to landscape

A letter that Edward Lear wrote in 1881 to a friend to whom he intended to dispatch two drawings of Athens was among the more successful lots that Bloomsbury Auctions (24/18/12% buyer’s premium) sold on October 19.

“My Dear Montgomery,” Lear wrote from a villa at Sanremo, “… just about to pack and send off… two …

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