Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Title:: Outside the Walls of Suez, 8:30 a.m., 17 January 1849 (54)
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 5 1/16 inches (19.4 x 12.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Inscribed in pen and brown ink over graphite, lower left: "8 -/2.a.m."; center right: "outside the | walls of Suez."; lower right: "54"; inscribed on verso: in graphite, lower center: "D. Gallup"; upper right: "41."
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1997.7.54
Classification:: Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:: animal art | camels (mammals) | genre subject | studies (visual works) | robes | saddles | harnesses | figure (illustration) | tassels
Associated Places:: Africa | Urban | As-Suways | Suez | Egypt
Currently On View:: Not on view
Exhibition History:: Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
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. 116, fig. 115, QH31.L424 P43 2021 (YCBA)
Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, p. 65, no. 38, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4914