Albania in the Painting of Edward Lear (1848)

Albanien in der Kunst des Malers Edward Lear (1848)

Pikturat shqiptare të Eduard Lirit (Edward Lear, 1848)

EDL028 - Edward Lear: View of Vlora (Avlóna) in southern Albania, 20 October 1948. “Avlóna lies in a recess or bay of the mountains, which here leave a level space of two miles or more between their base and the sea. The town is built for the most part at the foot of a crescent of rock, but the sides are dotted with houses; and at the two horns of this natural amphitheatre stand many conspicuous dervish tombs of pretty architecture, surrounded by groves of cypress. From hence the eye looks down on Avlóna in its garden of plane and olive trees, its principal buildings, the fine palace of its late Bey, and some good mosques, which stand out in beautiful relief from the wide salt plain and gulf beyond.” Edward Lear in Albania (London 2008), p. 105.