Albanien in der Kunst des Malers Edward Lear (1848)
Pikturat shqiptare të Eduard Lirit (Edward Lear, 1848)
EDL031 - Edward Lear: View of Dukat (Doukhides/Dukádhes/Ducades) south of Vlora in southern
Albania, 22 October 1848.
“At the highest part of the pass a most singular scene opens. The spectator seems on the edge of a
high wall, from the brink of which giddy elevation he looks down into a fearfully profound basin, at
the roots of the mountain. Above its eastern and southern enclosures rises the giant snow-clad Tchika
in all its immensity, while at his very feet, in a deep, dark green pit of wood and garden, lies the
town or village of Dukádhes, its houses scattered like milk-white dice along the banks of a wide
torrent, which finds its way to the gulf between the hill he stands on, and the high western ridge
dividing the valley from the sea.” Edward Lear in Albania (London 2008), p. 114-115.