Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 1/8 x 10 3/8 inches (7.9 x 26.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "El Luxor 7.30. AM. 20 Jany 1867"; in brown ink, lower right: "(199)"; Verso: in graphite, upper left: "50. up."; in graphite, center: "next above lowest"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.141
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
camels (mammals) | marine art | landscape | figures (representations) | boats | river | riverbank
Associated Places:
Africa | Upper Egypt | Egypt | Thebes | Luxor
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Edward Lear, Moment to Moment (IKON Gallery, 2022-09-09 - 2022-11-13)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:
Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, p. 87, no. 73, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)