Lear lived and worked on Corfu for long periods between 1855 and 1864. He called the island ‘the loveliest place in the world’. Kinopiástes is on a hill to the south of Corfu town, an easy walk from Lear’s apartment. His journal for 1 April 1863 records: ‘Set off by 6.30 with George to Kinopiástes – very warm. Drew there till it clouded, and rained hard – a storm… from 2 to 4.30 sate about, drawing, or walked about’. Lear’s inscriptions on the drawing note ‘all small / sparkle ceases / olives / Norway dark Cypresses, thinnish / orange / Ivy brilliant green’.