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)

EDL039 - Edward Lear: The fortress of Tepelena (Tepeléni) on the Vjosa River in southern Albania, looking northwards, 31 October 1848. “Beneath them the junction of the two rivers Viósa and Bantja forms the long promontory of Tepeléni, whose ruined palace and walls and silver-toned mosque give a strange air of dreamy romance to this scene, one of the most sublime and simple in Albania, and certainly one most fraught with associations ancient and modern.” Edward Lear in Albania (London 2008), p. 150.