Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British, Below Ekhmim, 1867
- Title:
- Below Ekhmim
- Additional Title(s):
- Below Akhmim
- Date:
- 1867
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, wove paper, mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 2 1/2 x 7 1/16 inches (6.4 x 17.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, over graphite, lower left: "6.15.PM. March 1.1867. below Ekminn. Shadoofs, black off gold. all banks deep [treson?] black. (577)"; Verso: inscribed in graphite, lower left: "309"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1997.7.269
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- landscape | river | river | riverbank | sky | structures (single built works) | sunset | water
- Associated Places:
- Africa | Akhmim | Nile | Sohag | Upper Egypt
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5321
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