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Call Number:
MSS 59
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Title(s):
[Crete]
Date:
circa 1880?
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Lists of drawings by Edward Lear
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 40
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939, Gallup's collecting of Edward Lear material is described in: Gallup, Donald C. "Collecting Edward Lear." The Yale University Library Gazette 61, no. 3/4 (1987): 125-42. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40858913. And in: Wilcox, Scott. Edward Lear and the art of travel. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2000.
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
The list lacks a heading, and the drawings are unnumbered and undated. The places identified are in Crete, and the verso bears the text of a journal entry in Crete, crossed out.
Additional Notes:
Written in black ink. Blue paper, with watermark: "E Towgood 1864."
Physical Description:
1 sheet ; 21 x 13 cm
Genre:
Lists, Correspondence , and Pen and ink drawings
Subject Terms:
Description and travel
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852. By that lake, whose gloomy shore
Associated Places:
Crete (Greece)
Mediterranean Region
Associated People/Groups:
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888
Finding Aid Title:
Edward Lear archive
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11283.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2896693
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2896693?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1