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Edward Lear in Albania : journals of a landscape painter in the Balkans / Edward Lear ; edited by Bejtullah Destani and Robert Elsie ; with a preface by Vivien Noakes.

Title
Edward Lear in Albania : journals of a landscape painter in the Balkans / Edward Lear ; edited by Bejtullah Destani and Robert Elsie ; with a preface by Vivien Noakes.
Author
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888
Publication
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Destani, Bejtullah D.
  • Elsie, Robert, 1950-2017
  • Centre for Albanian Studies (London, England)
Description
xvii, 225 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (col.), map; 26 cm.
Summary
Illustrated with the artist's own paintings and suffused with a unique charm, 'Edward Lear in Albania' catalogues his idiosyncratic observations of this beautiful and unknown land. Including insights into the environment, culture and politics of the period, these journals offer an intimate portrait of a captivating corner of Europe.
Subject
  • Lear, Edward, 1812-1888 > Diaries
  • Lear, Edward, 1812-1888 > Travel > Albania
  • Geschichte 1850,ca
  • Artists > England > Diaries
  • Albania > Description and travel
  • Albania > In art
Genre/Form
  • Art
  • Diaries
Note
  • "In association with The Centre for Albanian Studies."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-220) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781845116026 (hbk.)
  • 184511602X (hbk.)
LCCN
^^2008300467
OCLC
  • 170039471
  • SCSB-10466971
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library