Attributed to Sir John Leslie, 2nd Baronet CBE JP DL (Irish, 1857-1944)


A collection of ten sketchbook pages depicting the landscape and people of Egypt, late 19th centuryall but three are illustrated on both sides of the sheetvariously pencil, pen and black and brown ink, sepia wash and watercolour each 17 x 21cm (6 11/16 x 8 1/4in). (10)
|Following in a military tradition, Sir John Leslie, 2nd Baronet, was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards c.1880, with whom he served as a lieutenant. Most notably in Egypt, fighting at the Battle of Tel el Kebir in 1882. It is during this time in Egypt that it is likely that the sketches offered here were completed.