Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Title:
Mount Athos and the Monastery of Stavronikétes
Date:
1857
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (34.3 x 54.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in monogram in lower left: "EL"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.415
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
walking-sticks | landscape | men | cliffs | castle | bay (body of water) | mountain | trees
Associated Places:
Greece | Macedonia | Áthos | Mount Athos
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)

Orientalism in Western Art from Delacroix to Matisse (Museo Nacional de San Carlos, 1999-12-02 - 2000-04-02)

Edward Lear (Royal Academy) (Royal Academy of Arts, 1985-04-20 - 1985-07-14)

Edward Lear (Royal Academy) (National Academy Museum & School, 1985-09-09 - 1985-11-03)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 144-145, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Edward Lear, Letters of Edward Lear, author of "The book of nonsense", to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances Countess Waldegrave , T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1907, pp. 65, 77, 315, J18 L477 907 (SML)

Vivien Noakes, Edward Lear, 1812-1888, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1985, pp. 147-8, no. 53, NJ18 L455 N64 (YCBA)

Richard Stoneman, A Literary companion to travel in Greece, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA, 1994, p. 222, DF720.5 L56 1994 (YCBA)

Richard Stoneman, A luminous land, artists discover Greece , The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1998, pp. 115, 136-137, no. 85, N8214.5 G8 S76 1988 + (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, p. 73, no. 48, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:900