Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Title:
Calder Abbey, September 12. 1836
Date:
1836
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite with stumping and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/8 x 13 1/8 inches (23.2 x 33.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "Calder Abbey. | September. 12. 1836."; Verso: in graphite, center: "6"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.24
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | ruins | grass | arches | figures | trees | abbey | monastery | Cistercian | architectural subject | turkeys (birds)
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | Cumbria | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)
Publications:
Charles Nugent, Edward Lear, the landscape artist, tours of Ireland and the English lakes, 1835 & 1836 , The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 2009, pp. 107-8, fig. 23, NJ18 L455 N84 2009 + (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, pp. 14, 51, no. 9, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1638