Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 3/4 × 6 7/8 inches (9.5 × 17.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink over graphite, center right: "[...]"; in pen and brown ink over graphite, lower left:"Maharraka | 7.15 AM. Feby 14. 1867."; in pen and brown ink over graphite, lower right: "(462)"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "122 up"; in graphite, center: "next above lowest | right"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.229
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sky | architectural subject | water | sand | monument | temple | lake | desert | landscape | ruins
Associated Places:
Lake Nasser | Nubia | Egypt | Africa
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Edward Lear, Moment to Moment (IKON Gallery, 2022-09-09 - 2022-11-13)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. 100, no. 105, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)