Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876, British
Title:
A Bedouin Encampment; or, Bedouin Arabs
Date:
between 1841 and 1851
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, white gouache and graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 3/4 x 20 3/8 inches (34.9 x 51.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Possible collector's mark: Unidentified, red square (not in Lugt)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1934
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
desert | men | Bedouin | rugs | tents | caravan | saddle | genre subject | camel (mammal)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)

Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)
Publications:
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, no. 71, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water : oil sketches by British watercolorists, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, pp. 42-43, fig. 40, ND467 C67 (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, v.1: intro. p. 6, p. 207, no. 443, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

William Wordsworth, The Prelude 1805, Brandeis University Press, Waltham, MA, 2024, p. 79, fig. 5.2, PR5864 .A2 E54 2024 Oversisze (YCBA)

Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15-June 20,1965, , New Haven, 1965, no. 71, NC228 Y34 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10742