- Creator:
- Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
- Title:
- Sorrento, 2 August 1838
- Date:
- 1838
- Materials & Techniques:
- Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, greenish-gray wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 3/4 x 10 1/8 inches (17.1 x 25.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
- Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Sorrento."; inscribed in graphite, upper left: "Cocumella | wider"; upper center: "Cap: convent"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper center: "82. | upright. | Top | 17" (number 17 crossed out); in graphite, upper right: "332"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1997.7.43
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- genre subject | studies (visual works) | plants | buildings | domes | rocks (landforms)
- Associated Places:
- Italy | Sorrento | Campania
- 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:
- Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, p. 55, no. 19, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4898