Watercolor with pen in black ink and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 2 3/4 × 10 3/4 inches (7 × 27.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
inscribed in black ink, lower left: "Shelaal. 2.30. PM. Jany 29 1867"; in black ink, lower right: "(260)"; Verso: in graphite, center: "173 | D. Gallup"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.163
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
palm trees | rocks (landforms) | water | figures | river | river | riverbank | hills | valleys (landforms) | landscape | boat
Associated Places:
Nubia | Nubia | Aswan | Egypt | Africa | Nile
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11)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. 89, no. 76, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)