Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)Juxtapositions (Yale Center for British Art, 1997-11-19 - 1998-01-04)
Publications:
David Bindman, The History of British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, pp. 92-95 (v.2), fig. 50, N6761 +H57 2008 Oversize (YCBA)Vidya Dehejia, Impossible picturesqueness, Edward Lear's Indian watercolours, 1873-1875 , no. 1, Columbia University Press, New York, 1989, pp. 30-1, NJ18 L455 D44 1989 + (YCBA)Martina Droth, Britain in the world: Highlights from the Yale Center for British Art in honor of Amy Meyers, Yale University Press, New Haven, London, p. 140, N6761 .Y33 2019 (LC) (YCBA)Edward Lear, 1812-1888, a loan exhibition of oil paintings, watercolours and drawings, books and prints, nonsense works [held] 15th October to 1st November, 1968 , Gooden and Fox, Ltd., London, 1968, p. 34, no. 101, pl. XI, NJ18 L455 G66 + (YCBA)Donald C. Gallup, What mad pursuits! : more memories of a Yale librarian, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, pp. 73-76, Z720 G19 A31 1998 (YCBA)Eleanor M. Garvey, Edward Lear, painter, poet, and draughtsman, an exhibition of drawings, watercolors, oils, nonsense and travel books, Worcester Art Museum, April 18-June 2, 1968. , Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., 1968, pp. 44, 82, no. 84, NJ18 L455 W67 (YCBA)John M. MacKenzie, The Victorian vision, inventing new Britain , V&A Publications, London, 2001, p. 316, no. 297-8, DA 533 V528 2001 (YCBA)Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 166, no. 68, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)Vivien Noakes, Edward Lear : the life of a wanderer, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, pp. 156, 229, Shirley 4107 (LSF)Vivien Noakes, Edward Lear, 1812-1888, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1985, pp. 155-6, no. 63, NJ18 L455 N64 (YCBA)Romita Ray, Under the banyan tree, relocating the picturesque in British India , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, pp. 89-92, , fig. 34, N8214.5.I5 R39 2013 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, pp. 9, 12, 42, 111, no. 130, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, American sublime : landscape painting in the United States, 1820-1880, , Tate Publishing, London, UK, 2002, pp. 60-1, ND1351.5 W57 2002 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Commissioned by Lord Aberdare to paint a local subject of his own choosing, Edward Lear set out for India near the end of 1873 with his friend Lord Northbrook. Lear soon found his subject in Darjeeling, recording in his journal on January 16, 1874, “Wonderful wonderful view of Kinchinjuna!!!” He sketched repeatedly “the great world of dark opal vallies” and a “little Buddhist shrine,” along with one of the highest peaks of the Himalayas. His characteristic commitment to accurate topography is apparent in this painting’s close attention to details of the landscape. The figures, however, are rendered more as types than individuals, reflecting Lear’s allegiance to the British colonists who sponsored his trip. Over the course of the next five years, he painted this version in oil for Lord Northbrook as well as other versions for Lord Aberdare and Louisa, Lady Ashburton. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016