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Creator:
Edward Lear, born in London, England, 1812; active in England, Italy, and India; died in San Remo, Italy, 1888
Title:
Corfu from Ascension
Date:
1862
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
18 5/8 × 29 7/8 inches (47.3 × 75.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Signed in green paint, lower left: "EL [monogram]"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.2
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1997.7.2FR
Subject Terms:
field | forest | grazing | herd | landscape | pastoral | religious | rural | sea | sheep | shepherd | shore (landform)
Associated Places:
Ascension | Corfu | Greece
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1615
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Edward Lear, 1812-1888, a loan exhibition of oil paintings, watercolours and drawings, books and prints, nonsense works [held] 15th October to 1st November, 1968 , Gooden and Fox, Ltd., London, 1968, p. 37, no. 114, pl. XV, NJ18 L455 G66 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Donald C. Gallup, Collecting Edward Lear, Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 61, April 1987, p. 133, JSTOR [ORBIS]

Eleanor M. Garvey, Edward Lear, painter, poet, and draughtsman, an exhibition of drawings, watercolors, oils, nonsense and travel books, Worcester Art Museum, April 18-June 2, 1968. , Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., 1968, p. 43, no. 80, NJ18 L455 W67 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Jennifer S. Uglow, Mr. Lear : A Life of Art And Nonsense, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, p. 236, NJ18 .L455 U35 2018 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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