Monastir September 19, 1848 Edward Lear Lear visited Monastir during a fall 1848 tour. His "Journals of a Landcape Painter in Albania, etc." (1851) record Constantinople as his point of departure, and arrival at Monastir on September 18th, with a stay of three days. Then part of the Ottoman Empire, the town lies in a region that borders Illyria and Macedonia and is today known as Bitola, within the Republic of Macedonia. In the mid-nineteenth century local Muslims regarded drawing as blasphemous and made it impossible initially for Lear to sketch outdoors. After visiting a local Ottoman official, the Cambridge eduated Emim Seraskier Pasha, he received a guard and was able to work unmolested. This view along the Dragor River includes a prominent tower at right (repurposed today into a clock tower), with the dome and minaret of the Jeni Mosque visible through trees. In the distance, Lear included a bridge lined with shops, noting in his journal that, "either looking up or down the river,

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Monastir September 19, 1848 Edward Lear Lear visited Monastir during a fall 1848 tour. His "Journals of a Landcape Painter in Albania, etc." (1851) record Constantinople as his point of departure, and arrival at Monastir on September 18th, with a stay of three days. Then part of the Ottoman Empire, the town lies in a region that borders Illyria and Macedonia and is today known as Bitola, within the Republic of Macedonia. In the mid-nineteenth century local Muslims regarded drawing as blasphemous and made it impossible initially for Lear to sketch outdoors. After visiting a local Ottoman official, the Cambridge eduated Emim Seraskier Pasha, he received a guard and was able to work unmolested. This view along the Dragor River includes a prominent tower at right (repurposed today into a clock tower), with the dome and minaret of the Jeni Mosque visible through trees. In the distance, Lear included a bridge lined with shops, noting in his journal that, "either looking up or down the river,

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