Period: 19th century / Genre: genre subject / Associated Places: Egypt

1. The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt

Creator:: David Roberts, 1796–1864
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 14 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (36.8 x 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. Mameluke purchasing an Arabian stallion

Creator:: George Henry Laporte, 1799–1873
Date:: ca. 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 1/8 x 21 1/8 inches (43.5 x 53.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. A Lady Receiving Visitors (The Reception)

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: 1873
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 25 × 30 inches (63.5 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Near Suez, evening, 15 January 1849 (43)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches (13.3 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

5. Shelaal

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink on thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 13/16 x 4 7/8 inches (9.7 x 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

6. Near Korosko

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 11/16 x 2 13/16 inches (9.4 x 7.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

7. Near Suez, 1 pm, 16 January 1849 (48)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/16 x 9 1/16 inches (13.2 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

8. Outside the Walls of Suez, 8:30 a.m., 17 January 1849 (54)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 5 1/16 inches (19.4 x 12.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

9. Colósaneh, 5:45 - 6:00 p.m., January 3, 1867 (62)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches (14.9 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

10. Opposite Beni Hassan

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 15/16 x 9 13/16 inches (15.1 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

11. A Dry Halfeh Grass

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/4 x 7 inches (7 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

12. Egpytian Man on Camel

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/16 x 1 11/16 inches (5.2 x 4.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

13. Zereeba, near Belbeis

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches (7 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

14. Near Belbeis

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches (7 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

15. Study of an Egyptian Man on a Camel

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/8 x 1 11/16 inches (5.4 x 4.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

16. Avenue of Trees

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/4 x 3 13/16 inches (14.6 x 9.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

17. Studies of Camels and Egyptian Men

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 1 3/8 x 3 7/8 inches (3.5 x 9.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

18. Opposite Kom Ombos Abu Jer

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches (6.3 x 4.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

19. Salahiyeh

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/16 x 9 7/8 inches (8.7 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

20. El Areesh

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 1 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (4.4 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

21. Belbeis

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 x 9 inches (7.9 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

22. Between Bir El Abt

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 9 inches (14 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

23. The Ramesseum at Thebes

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: between 1841 and 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white gouache, black chalk and graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 20 1/8 inches (34.9 × 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai. 1842 - The Convent of St. Catherine in the Distance

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/4 x 53 1/2 inches (66.7 x 135.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. Cairo Bazaar

Creator:: William James Muller, 1812–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 12 11/16 inches (24.1 x 32.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift

26. Egyptians outside a tomb

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 5 inches (18.7 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt

2. Mameluke purchasing an Arabian stallion

3. A Lady Receiving Visitors (The Reception)

4. Near Suez, evening, 15 January 1849 (43)

5. Shelaal

6. Near Korosko

7. Near Suez, 1 pm, 16 January 1849 (48)

8. Outside the Walls of Suez, 8:30 a.m., 17 January 1849 (54)

9. Colósaneh, 5:45 - 6:00 p.m., January 3, 1867 (62)

10. Opposite Beni Hassan

11. A Dry Halfeh Grass

12. Egpytian Man on Camel

13. Zereeba, near Belbeis

14. Near Belbeis

15. Study of an Egyptian Man on a Camel

16. Avenue of Trees

17. Studies of Camels and Egyptian Men

18. Opposite Kom Ombos Abu Jer

19. Salahiyeh

20. El Areesh

21. Belbeis

22. Between Bir El Abt

23. The Ramesseum at Thebes

24. A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai. 1842 - The Convent of St. Catherine in the Distance

25. Cairo Bazaar

26. Egyptians outside a tomb