Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 2 5/16 x 6 7/8 inches (5.9 x 17.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink over graphite, lower left: "Maharraka 7.35 AM. Feby 14. 1867"; lower right: "(465)"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "1 p.m Feby 13.1867"; upper right: "(456)"; lower center: "259"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.232
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
water | columns (architectural elements) | desert | ruins | landscape | architectural subject | palm trees | sky | temple | monument | sand | lake
Associated Places:
Nubia | Egypt | Africa | Lake Nasser
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Edward Lear, Moment to Moment (IKON Gallery, 2022-09-09 - 2022-11-13)Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)
Publications:
Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, p. 101, no. 108, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)