- Title:
- Abu Simbel, 1:00 pm, 9 February 1867 (384)
- Date:
- 1867
- Medium:
- Watercolor with pen and brown ink and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 3 7/8 x 10 1/16 inches (9.8 x 25.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "1.PM.Feby 9.1867. Abou Simbl"; in brown ink, lower right: "(384)"; Verso: in graphite, upper left: "up 92 | next below A"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1997.7.209
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- desert | hills | lake | landscape | monument | sand | temples | valleys (landforms) | water
- Associated Places:
- Abu Simbel | Africa | Aswan High Dam | Egypt | Lake Nasser | Nubia
- 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)
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The lure of the East, British orientalist painting, 1830-1925 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 17, V 1879 (YCBA)
The lure of the east : British Orientalist painting: wall labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. [85], V 2577 (YCBA) V 2577
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5259
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Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British, Abu Simbel, 1:00 pm, 9 February 1867 (384), 1867
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