- Creator:
- Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
- Title:
- Sketches of Athens
- Date:
- 1848
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, blue wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 3/4 × 17 7/8 inches (17.1 × 45.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
- Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "Athens. 8. June | [...] -1848."; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "(19)"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, Yale BA 1934, MA 1942
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1990.28.5
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- landscape | studies (visual works) | ruins | mountain | monument | columns | structures (structural elements) | architectural subject
- Associated Places:
- Greece | Athens
- Currently On View:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3101