Watercolor with pen and black ink and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 × 10 5/8 inches (7.6 × 27 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
inscribed in black ink, lower left: "Shelaal, 5.30. PM. 29. Jany. 1867"; in black ink, lower right: "(264)"; Verso: in graphite, upper left: "72 up; in graphite, center: 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:
B1997.7.164
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sunset | rocks (landforms) | figure (representation) | landscape | riverbank | river | river | water
Associated Places:
Nubia | Nile | Africa | Egypt | Nubia
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11)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. 89, no. 77, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)