Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 2 5/16 x 5 7/8 inches (5.9 x 14.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink over graphite, lower left: "gray all. | Opposite Melaghara 5.20.P.M; in bdrown ink, center: "SEAREEF"; in bdrown ink, lower right: "Palms also, off shy. boats black 71"; Verso: in graphite, upper left: "14. up"; in graphite, lower center: "next above A"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.89
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
palm trees | sky | sunset | river | landscape | boats
Associated Places:
Egypt | Maghâgha | Africa | Nile
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)Collecting (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1999-04-23 - 1999-07-10)
Publications:
Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, pp. 82-83, no. 62, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)