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Prints and Drawings 323
Archives 63
Rare Books and Manuscripts 21
Reference Library 10
Paintings and Sculpture 6

Creator

Lear, Edward, 1812–1888 259
Norris, Robert Provo, died 1851 39
Unknown artist 11
Brabazon, Hercules Brabazon, 1821–1906 5
Roberts, David, 1796–1864 5
Daniell, Samuel, 1775–1811 4
Cameron, David Young, Sir, 1865–1945 3
Dyce, Charles, active 1848 3
Florio, Jason, born 1965 3
Hall, Morris, Captain 3
Larrabee, Constance Stuart 3
Muller, William James, 1812–1845 3
Baines, Thomas, 1820–1875 2
Cooke, Edward William, 1811–1880 2
Davis, Samuel, 1760–1819 2
Day, & Co., 1824–1913 2
Goff, Robert Charles, 1837–1922 2
Lewis, John Frederick, 1804–1876 2
Mansergh, John Craven 2
Michell, John, Sir, 1781–1866 2
Simpson, Annie L., active 1894–1913 2
Tucker, S. (Sarah), -approximately 1859 2
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 2
Ablancourt, sieur d', 1621–1696 1
Barker, Thomas Jones, 1813–1882 1
Baxter, George, 1804–1867 1
Beauclerc, G. (George) 1
Borra, Giovanni Battista, 1713–1770 1
Botero, Giovanni, 1540–1617 1
Bradshaw, Thomas, Born 1767 1

Date

From

To

On-site Access

Accessible in the Study Room 407
Accessible in the Reference Library 10
Not on view 5
On view 1

Image Use

Free to Use 382
Under Certain Circumstances 41

Image Available

available 329
unavailable 94

Provenance

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Classification

Drawings & Watercolors 300
Archives and Manuscripts 63
Books 20
Prints 16
Maps & Atlas (printed) 7
Paintings 6
Photographs 6
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural 2
Archives & Manuscripts 1
Music (printed) 1
Periodicals 1

Collective Title

This Is Libya 3
The Victoria Falls, Zambezi River 2
Illustrations of the Bible 1
Liber Studiorum 1
Political Sketches 1
The Holy Land and Egypt, Vol. 6 1

Period

19th century 307
20th century 14
19th century-20th century 11
21st century 9
17th century 8
18th century 7
18th century-19th century 4
16th century 2

Materials & Techniques

wove paper 294
graphite 291
watercolor 279
pen 254
brown ink 231
gouache 36
white gouache 35
black ink 27
gray ink 16
laid paper 14
gray wash 11
etching (printing process) 6
painting (technique) 6
red ink 6
board 4
lithography 4
oil paint 4
brown wash 3
canvas 3
chromogenic processes 3
cochineal 3
drypoint 3
gelatin silver process 3
photographic paper 3
scratching out 3
black chalk 2
Asian paper 1
aquatint 1
card 1
chine collé 1

Height [cm]

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Work Type

drawing 301
watercolor 292
intaglio print 8
photograph 7
atlase 6
painting 6
planographic print 5
engraving 3
nautical chart 3
woodcut 3
aquatint 2
armorial bookplates (provenance) 2
exploration literature 2
map 2
advertising card 1
armorial binding 1
caricature 1
chromolithograph 1
diarie 1
early map 1
ephemera 1
etching 1
ethnic stereotype 1
exhibition catalog 1
humorous picture 1
ink drawing 1
juvenile literature 1
lithotint 1
manuscript waste (binding) 1
maps in book 1

Genre

landscape 232
marine art 61
architectural subject 55
genre subject 38
figure study 14
cityscape 10
portrait 5
animal art 3
historical subject 3
religious and mythological subject 3
military art 2
literary theme 1

Subject Terms

landscape 242
river 201
sky 183
water 174
palm trees 101
sand 76
riverbank 64
British 63
Colonies 63
Colonization 63
Description and travel 63
History 63
Memorials 63
Xhosa (African people) 63
marine art 62
figures (representations) 61
boats 55
architectural subject 54
ruins 51
cliffs 44
rocks (landforms) 40
desert 39
genre subject 39
temple 39
boat 35
men 28
trees 27
hills 25
lake 24
sails 24

Subject Period

19th century 65
1795-1872 63
Frontier Wars, 1811-1878 63
20th century 2
17th century 1

Associated Places

Africa 423

Egypt 221
Nile 202
Nubia 73
South Africa 65
Cape of Good Hope 63
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) 63
Great Britain 63
Upper Egypt 46
Lake Nasser 36
Sudan 14
Aswan 13
Thebes 11
Luxor 10
Qasr Ibrim 10
Wadi Halfa 10
Abu Simbel 9
As Said 9
Urban 9
Sohag 8
Morocco 7
Al-Qahirah 6
Karnak 6
Lower Egypt 6
Philae 6
Sinai Peninsula 6
Akhmim 5
As Salihiyah 5
Aswan High Dam 5
Cairo 5

Associated People

Norris, Robert Provo, d. 1851 63
Norris, Dennis George, b. 1798 or 9 55
Michell, John, Sir, 1781-1866 51
De Smidt, Annie, 19th cent 50
Great Britain. Army 50
Great Britain. Army. Royal Warwickshire Regiment 50
Hall, Morris, Captain 50
Mansergh, John Craven 50
South Africa. Army. Imperial Cape Mounted Riflemen 50
Barentsz, Willem, ca. 1550–1597 1
Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon (1808 – 1873), President of the French Second Republic, later ruler of the Second French Empire 1
Braun, Samuel, 1580–1668 1
Bruce, James, 1730–1794 1
Cleopatra VII Philopator (late 69 BC–30 BC), last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt 1
Coplans, John 1
De Smidt, Annie, 19th century 1
Equiano, Olaudah, 1745–1797 1
Fielding-Ould, Fielding 1
Fielding-Ould, Robert 1
Gaius Marius (157BC - 86BC), Roman military commander and consul 1
Hermite, Jacques l', 1582–1624 1
King, William Ross, 1822-1890 1
Lawlor, Captain 1
Livingstone, David, 1813–1873 1
Newton, John, 1725–1807 1
Prester John (Legendary character) 1
Rijp, Jan Cornelisz 1
Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644 1
Russell, Lord John, 1st Earl Russell of Kingston Russell (1792–1878), politician/statesman 1
Sheikh Hussein of Gebel 1

Exhibition History

Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14) 75
Edward Lear, Moment to Moment (IKON Gallery, 2022-09-09 - 2022-11-13) 26
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) 18
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11) 8
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) 3
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) 2
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) 2
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 2
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 2
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 2
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 2
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Portland Art Museum, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 2
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Toledo Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 2
British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08) 2
Egypt - The Legacy (Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, 1990-02-13 - 1990-04-22) 2
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) 2
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) 2
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) 2
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Tate Britain, 2008-06-04 - 2008-08-31) 2
Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22) 2
Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07) 1
Collecting (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1999-04-23 - 1999-07-10) 1
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978) 1
David Roberts: Artist and Traveler (Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 2022-06-04 - 2022-08-27) 1
Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs (Yale Peabody Museum, 2013-04-13 - 2014-01-04) 1
Enlightened Princesses - Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-02-02 - 2017-04-30) 1
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Tate Britain, 1984-10-17 - 1985-01-06) 1
George Stubbs (1724-1806) Tate Gallery (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-02-13 - 1985-04-07) 1
George Stubbs (Neue Pinakothek - Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, 2012-01-26 - 2012-05-06) 1
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: a Memorial Exhibition (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2000-02-14 - 2000-05-15) 1

Credit Line

Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939 245
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 47
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of George E. Dix, B.A. 1934, M.A. 1942 6
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948 5
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 5
Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery 4
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc. 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Renée and Geoffrey Hartman, Yale PhD 1953 3
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Judith Zlotsky 2
Yale Center for British Art, The William K. Rose and Eugene A. Carroll Collection 2
22709619810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22711740120008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22711751970008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22711752480008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22717520270008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22743664840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22767336890008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22768344900008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22784619260008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22820570060008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22823943510008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22827087340008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22828357620008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22833775410008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22870481160008651|Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson 1
22897017250008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22898276520008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund 1
22930552270008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
22943126250008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection 1
Yale Center for British Art, A gift from Great-Granddaughter, G. Patricia Haynes Clark in memory of her son Christopher Sears Griffith, Great-Great-Grandson of Thomas Henry Kavanagh, VC 1

Language

English 22
Latin 3
French 2
German 2
Dutch 1
Italian 1

Archival Collections

Robert Provo Norris Collection 63

Archival Collection Level

object 62
collection 1

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On view
George Stubbs, 1724–1806

Zebra

1763
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Philae, Egypt

1863
Accessible in the Study Room
Etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851

Tenth Plague of Egypt

1816
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Amada, 9:30 am, 12 February 1867

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Wady Feiran, Peninsula of Mt. Sinai

ca. 1880
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Oasis Village

1854
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Maharraka Temple

February 14, 1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Abu Simbel, 11-11:30 am, 8 February 1867 (374)

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Deir Kadige

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Gebel Sheikh Abu Fodde

1854
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Gebelein

1854
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Silsilis

1854
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Boat on the Nile

1854
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

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

1849
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Near Suez, evening, 15 January 1849 (43)

1849
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

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

1849
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Thebes

1854
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Toara, 11:15 a.m., January 1, 1867 (9)

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Near Mesghouneh

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Near Mesghouneh

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Tabeen Berlin, 4:00 p.m., January 1, 1867 (16)

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Near Mesghouneh

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Haram el Ketab

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

El Areesh

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

El Areesh (Torrens Ægypti)

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Memphis

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Memphis

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Boats on the Nile

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Boat on the Nile

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Near Belbeis

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Opposite Kom Ombos Abu Jer

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Zereeba, near Belbeis

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Belbeis

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Belbeis

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Salahiyeh

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Salahiyeh

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Salahiyeh

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Salahiyeh

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Salahiyeh

1867
Accessible in the Study Room
Edward Lear, 1812–1888

Gantara (Suez Canal), 5:25 am, 27 March 1867 (20)

1867

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