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Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
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Lewis, John Frederick, 1804–1876
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Simpson, William, 1823–1899
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Drawings & Watercolors
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19th century
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graphite
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watercolor
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birds
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books
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buttons (fasteners)
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convent
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desert
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Africa
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Crimean Peninsula
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Egypt
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Frontier
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Janub Sina'
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Mont-Sinaï
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Saint Catherine's Monastery of Mount Sinai
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Sebastopol
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Sheikh Hussein of Gebel
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Stewart, Frederick William Robert, Viscount Castlereagh, later fourth Marquess of Londonderry (1805–1872)
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Exhibition History
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)
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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)
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An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
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Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)
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Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Tate Britain, 2008-06-04 - 2008-08-31)
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Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)
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Ruskin - Past: Present: Future (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-20 - 2000-02-27)
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The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)
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The Orientalists - Delacroix to Matisse - The Allure of North Africa and the Near East (National Gallery of Art, 1984-07-10 - 1984-10-28)
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Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
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Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Greek Woodcutter, June 13 /56
1856
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John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai. 1842 - The Convent of St. Catherine in the Distance
1856
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William Simpson, 1823–1899
Mine in the Bastion du Mat, Sebastopol, Crimea
1856