Africa | Egypt | Mont-Sinaï | Janub Sina' | Saint Catherine's Monastery of Mount Sinai | Frontier
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Tate Britain, 2008-06-04 - 2008-08-31)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)Ruskin - Past: Present: Future (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-20 - 2000-02-27)The Orientalists - Delacroix to Matisse - The Allure of North Africa and the Near East (National Gallery of Art, 1984-07-10 - 1984-10-28)Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 27, no. 102, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 295, no. 111, pl. 111, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Catalogue of the art treasures of the United Kingdom : collected at Manchester in 1857, Bradbury and Evans, London, 1857, p. 196, no. 638, N5056 .M35 M25 1857 (YCBA)Julie F. Codell, Transculturation in British art, 1770-1930, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, 2012, pp. 64-68, 70, 71, color pl. 2, N6764 .T73 2012 (YCBA)Imogen Hart, Imogen Hart on John Frederick Lewis's A Frank Encampment, , August 8, 2011, 0 minutes 12 seconds, http://www.youtube.com/v/NbW8ioZxeysZeynep Inankur, The Poetics and politics of place, Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism , Pera Museum, distributed by University of Washington Press, Istanbul Seattle, WA, 2011, pp. 251-52, fig. 17.6, ND1460 E95 P647 2011 + (YCBA)Patrick Noon, A Princely Amateur : Paul Mellon and his Collection of British Drawings, , Master Drawings, vol. 38, Master Drawings Association, Inc., Fall 2000, p. 343, fig.5, NC1 .M37 (YCBA) Another copy available as item V2329.Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 111, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Richard Green Gallery Sales Catalogue: Sporting & British Paintings, Wednesday 12th November 2008, Richard Green Gallery, November 2008, p. 76, no. 24, DealerCat Richard Green GalleryDuncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 27, no. 102, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)John Ruskin, The works of John Ruskin, , George Allen, London, 1903-1912, p. 74 (v. 14), , PR5251 C66 1903 (YCBA)Douglas E. Schoenherr, British drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, National Library of Canada, Ottowa, 2005, p. 107, no. 40, fig. 83-84, NC228 .N27 2005 (YCBA)Nicholas Tromans, The lure of the East, British Orientalist painting , Tate Publishing, London, 2008, pp.53, 107-08, 118-19, 132-33, 215, fig. 101, N7429 .L87 2008 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Emily M. Weeks, Cultures crossed : John Frederick Lewis and the art of orientalism, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2014, pp. 35-36, 128-150, 171 [n. 142], 211 [n. 3], 212 [ns. 5, 6, 7], 213 [n. 10] 214 [ns.27, 28, 29,] 215 [ns. 32, 33, 35, 36, 37], 216 pn. 41], 217 [ns. 52], 54, collr deail and figs. 97-107, NJ18.L5857 W437 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, pp. 166-167, no. 186, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)Caroline Williams, John Frederick Lewis, "Reflections of Reality" , Muqarnas, vol. 18, Brill, 2001, pp. 230. 231, fig. 4, V 2575 (YCBA)Caroline Williams, John Frederick Lewis, "Reflections of Reality" , Muqarnas, vol. 18, Brill, 2001, pp. 230. 231, fig. 4, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1523309
Gallery Label:
John Frederick Lewis spent a decade in Egypt, where he created watercolor studies such as Sheik Hussein of Gebel Tor and His Son, painted in 1842–43, during the artist’s visit to the sheik’s territory near Mount Sinai. Fifteen years later, when Lewis had returned to Britain, he painted this elaborate watercolor in which the sheik plays a central role, shown as guide to the British aristocrat Frederick William Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, who commissioned the portrait of their interaction. The painting is richly detailed in its depiction of Egyptian life and landscape in the sacred area around Mount Sinai, but it also tells the viewer much about the idealized life of the well-off European traveler to Egypt. Viscount Castlereagh lounges in an elaborate tent, surrounded by English books, newspapers, and maps. Like the artist, Castlereagh adopted Eastern dress while traveling in Egypt. However, the sheik’s upright posture and commanding presence and Castlereagh’s languorousness reverse the terms of traditional paintings of encounters between East and West. It is not surprising that Castlereagh rejected the watercolor he had originally commissioned. Gallery label for the Critique of Reason: Romantic Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)