Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/4 x 18 7/8 inches (28.6 x 47.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink over graphite, lower left: "Reggio. | 26. July. 1847."; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "The Aloe flowers come bright yellow -off,- 5."; in graphite, lower right: "the aloe come bright yellow off"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper right: "36c"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.50
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | vegetation | cityscape | windows | city | mountains | hills | plants | trees | buildings | botany | science | sky
Associated Places:
Italy | Calabria | Reggio nell'Emilia
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:
The natural history of Edward Lear, Princeton University Press, Princeton, p. 135, fig. 133, QH31.L424 P43 2021 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, p. 62, no. 34, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)