Watercolor with pen and brown ink and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 2 3/4 x 7 inches (7 x 17.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen with brown ink, lower left: "Dendour 2.15. PM. 31. Jany 1867"; in pen with brown ink, lower right: "(298.)"; Verso: in pen with brown ink, upper left: "chorus"; in graphite, upper left: "78. up Middle"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.174
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sky | architectural subject | palm trees | temples | riverbank | river | river | desert | water | sand | ruins | landscape
Associated Places:
Egypt | Aswan | Nile | Nubia | Africa | Temple of Isis | Nubia
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:
Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, pp. 38, 92, no. 84, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)