Watercolor with pen and brown ink and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray-green wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 9/16 x 10 3/8 inches (9 x 26.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "El Uksor. 7. am. 20 Jany 1867"; in brown ink, lower right: "(198)"; Verso: in graphite, center: "50.4 | next below top"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.140
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
camels (mammals) | water | river | river | monument | structures (single built works) | temples | boats | figures (representations) | landscape | marine art
Associated Places:
Nile | Luxor | Qina | Egypt | Upper Egypt | Africa
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Edward Lear, Moment to Moment (IKON Gallery, 2022-09-09 - 2022-11-13)Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)
Publications:
Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, p. 87, no. 72, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)