Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Title:
Brothers Water from Patterdale
Date:
1836
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite and white gouache on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 x 10 1/16 inches (17.8 x 25.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Brothers Water | froam Batterdale | 12. Oct. 1836"; inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right: "III"; Verso: inscribed in graphite, center: "8"; inscribed in graphite, upper right: "24"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.30
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | road | figure (representation) | lake | grass | mountains | valleys (landforms) | trees | water | sky
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | England | Lake District | Patterdale
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Charles Nugent, Edward Lear, the landscape artist, tours of Ireland and the English lakes, 1835 & 1836 , The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 2009, p. 159, fig. 44, NJ18 L455 N84 2009 + (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1644