Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on thick, moderately textured, brown laid paper mounted on medium, slightly textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches (36.8 × 52.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left within image: "13"; inscribed in graphite, upper left on back: "41"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on back: "19"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.19454
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | ruins | road | columns | steps | stone | mountains | hills | shrubs | trees | temple | houses | grasses | distance | light | Doric | architectural subject | clouds | sky | leaves | ancient Greek | Greek mythology | Grand Tour
Associated Places:
Europe | Italy | Campania | Salerno | Paestum
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)Noble Simplicity and Silent Greatness - Neoclassical Art from 1700 - 1900 (Yale University Art Gallery, 1991-04-26 - 1991-09-29)
Publications:
Sigrid De Jong, Rediscovering architecture : Paestum in eighteenth-century architectural experience and theory, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2014, pp. 33-34, 49, 50, 52-53, fig. 26, DG70.P3 J65 2014 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, pp. 132-133, no. 150, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)Windows on that world, essays on British art presented to Brian Allen , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2012, pp. 158-59, fig. 88, N6766 .W56 2012 (YCBA)