Gebel Sheikh Abu Fodde, 12:30 pm, 4 March 1867 (592)
Date:
1867
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 5/8 × 9 7/8 inches (9.2 × 25.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, center left: "flat [...] sand"; in pen and brown ink, center right: "dark blue | [...]"; in pen and brown ink, lower left: "green [...] sand | 12.30. PM. March 4. 1867. Gebel S. Abou fodde."; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "(592)"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "160 up | Top"; in graphite, upper right: "316"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.282
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sky | rocks (landforms) | water | cliffs | river | river | vegetation | landscape
Associated Places:
Nile | 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. 104, no. 118, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)