Albanien in der Kunst des Malers Edward Lear (1848)
Pikturat shqiptare të Eduard Lirit (Edward Lear, 1848)
EDL023 - Edward Lear: Berat in central Albania, with oxcarts at the river and the town and fortress
in the background, 15 October 1848.
“At length the celebrated fortress of Berát appeared - dark blue, and diminutive, on a pointed hill.
Approaching the capital of Central Albania - a place I had so long desired to see - every step leads
into grander scenes. The river Apsus or Beratino is repassed on a stone bridge, and the road winds
over the plain on the banks of the wide stream, through a tract of country of the finest character.”
Edward Lear in Albania (London 2008), p. 91.