Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
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
Subject Terms:
landscape | sea | shore (landform) | forest | rural | shepherd | pastoral | religious | sheep | field | grazing | herd
Associated Places:
Ascension | Corfu | Greece
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
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)

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

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)

Jennifer S. Uglow, Mr. Lear : A Life of Art And Nonsense, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, p. 236, NJ18 .L455 U35 2018 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1615