Genre: genre subject / Associated Places: Africa / Work Type: watercolor

1. Near Suez, 1 pm, 16 January 1849 (48)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/16 x 9 1/16 inches (13.2 x 23 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

2. Outside the Walls of Suez, 8:30 a.m., 17 January 1849 (54)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 5/8 x 5 1/16 inches (19.4 x 12.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

3. Near Suez, evening, 15 January 1849 (43)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches (13.3 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

4. Sheikh El Wachshee, El Luxor

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/16 x 9 1/8 inches (15.4 x 23.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

5. A Dry Halfeh Grass

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/4 x 7 inches (7 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

6. Boats on the Nile

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/16 x 6 1/16 inches (10.3 x 15.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

7. Shelaal

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, gouache, pen and brown ink on thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 13/16 x 4 7/8 inches (9.7 x 12.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

8. Near Korosko

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 11/16 x 2 13/16 inches (9.4 x 7.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

9. Wady Halfeh

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 5/8 x 12 7/16 inches (11.7 x 31.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

10. Colósaneh, 5:45 - 6:00 p.m., January 3, 1867 (62)

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches (14.9 x 11.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

11. Opposite Beni Hassan

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 15/16 x 9 13/16 inches (15.1 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

12. Gebel Sheikh Eredi

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 3/8 x 6 inches (13.7 x 15.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

13. Qaw el Kebir

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 5 inches (14 x 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

14. Near Dishna

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 1 5/16 x 5 7/8 inches (3.3 x 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

15. Near Belbeis

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches (7 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

16. Belbeis

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 1/8 x 9 inches (7.9 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

17. Boats on the Nile

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/16 x 10 3/8 inches (5.2 x 26.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

18. Opposite Kom Ombos Abu Jer

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches (6.3 x 4.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

19. Zereeba, near Belbeis

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 2 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches (7 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

20. Salahiyeh

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 7/16 x 9 7/8 inches (8.7 x 25.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

21. Between Bir El Abt

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, blue wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/2 x 9 inches (14 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

22. El Areesh

Creator:: Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Date:: 1867
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 1 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (4.4 x 11.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939

23. Cairo Bazaar

Creator:: William James Muller, 1812–1845
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 x 12 11/16 inches (24.1 x 32.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift

24. Port Louis from La Petite Montagne (Twilight) with a Rider and Figures in Foreground

Creator:: Thomas Bradshaw, Born 1767
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and graphite with scratching out on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 5/8 × 9 1/4 inches (16.8 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Ramesseum at Thebes

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: between 1841 and 1851
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, white gouache, black chalk and graphite with scratching out on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 3/4 × 20 1/8 inches (34.9 × 51.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai. 1842 - The Convent of St. Catherine in the Distance

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: 1856
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, gouache and graphite on slightly textured, beige wove paper mounted on board
Dimensions:: Sheet: 26 1/4 x 53 1/2 inches (66.7 x 135.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Ivory Coast, West Africa

Creator:: Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Date:: between 1810 and 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, pen and gray ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 x 21 9/16 inches (37.5 x 54.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. Passengers aboard the Nile steamer

Creator:: Charles Dyce, active 1848
Date:: ca. 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and black chalk over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 13 3/4 inches (24.4 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. Egyptians outside a tomb

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 5 inches (18.7 × 12.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. Near Suez, 1 pm, 16 January 1849 (48)

2. Outside the Walls of Suez, 8:30 a.m., 17 January 1849 (54)

3. Near Suez, evening, 15 January 1849 (43)

4. Sheikh El Wachshee, El Luxor

5. A Dry Halfeh Grass

6. Boats on the Nile

7. Shelaal

8. Near Korosko

9. Wady Halfeh

10. Colósaneh, 5:45 - 6:00 p.m., January 3, 1867 (62)

11. Opposite Beni Hassan

12. Gebel Sheikh Eredi

13. Qaw el Kebir

14. Near Dishna

15. Near Belbeis

16. Belbeis

17. Boats on the Nile

18. Opposite Kom Ombos Abu Jer

19. Zereeba, near Belbeis

20. Salahiyeh

21. Between Bir El Abt

22. El Areesh

23. Cairo Bazaar

24. Port Louis from La Petite Montagne (Twilight) with a Rider and Figures in Foreground

25. The Ramesseum at Thebes

26. A Frank Encampment in the Desert of Mount Sinai. 1842 - The Convent of St. Catherine in the Distance

27. The Ivory Coast, West Africa

28. Passengers aboard the Nile steamer

29. Egyptians outside a tomb