- Title:
- The Ramesseum at Thebes
- Date:
- between 1841 and 1851
- Medium:
- 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) and Frame: 23 1/4 × 29 1/4 × 1 1/4 inches (59.1 × 74.3 × 3.2 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1935
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | cage | camel (mammal) | desert | donkey | genre subject | hieroglyphics | men | ruins | temple | tent
- Associated Places:
- Africa | Egypt | Qina | Ramesseum | Thebes
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: As a COVID-19 precaution, the Study Room is closed until further notice. - Exhibition History:
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Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Sharjah Art Museum, 2009-02-18 - 2009-04-30)
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Pera Museum, 2008-09-26 - 2009-01-11)
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Tate Britain, 2008-06-04 - 2008-08-31)
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
- Publications:
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Painting in England 1700-1850, collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon. , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, v.1: p. 207, no. 442, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)
The lure of the east : British Orientalist painting: wall labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. [91], V 2577 (YCBA) V 2577
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10743
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John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876, British, The Ramesseum at Thebes, between 1841 and 1851
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