Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Title:
The Dead Sea, 16 and 17 April 1858
Date:
April 16 and 17, 1858
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink with watercolor over graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 21 3/4 inches (36.8 x 55.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed with other notations in artist's hand of general and color notes in graphite traced over in pen and brown ink
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1933
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sky | birds | rocks (landforms) | sand | mountains | river | sea | study (visual work) | landscape
Associated Places:
West Bank | Israël | Jordan | Jordan | Dead Sea
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Tate Britain, 2008-06-04 - 2008-08-31)

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)

Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)

Victorian Landscape Watercolors (The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992-11-18 - 1993-01-03)

Victorian Landscape Watercolors (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-09-09 - 1992-11-01)

Victorian Landscape Watercolors (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 1993-02-11 - 1993-04-12)

Edward Lear (Royal Academy) (Royal Academy of Arts, 1985-04-20 - 1985-07-14)
Publications:
Vivien Noakes, Edward Lear, 1812-1888, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1985, pp. 110-111, no. 25b, NJ18 L455 N64 (YCBA)

Nicholas Tromans, The lure of the East, British Orientalist painting , Tate Publishing, London, 2008, pp. 100, 117, 215, fig. 100, N7429 .L87 2008 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, p. 76, no. 52, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Victorian landscape watercolors, Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1992, p. 100, no. 36, ND2243 .G7 W55 1992 + Oversize (YCBA)

Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 188-190, no. 83, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:6290