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Call Number:
MSS 59
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Lear, Edward, 1812–1888
Title(s):
Ionian Isles 1848 lists 1-2 : Greece 1848
Date:
circa 1880?
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Lists of drawings by Edward Lear
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 21a
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939, Gallup's collecting of Edward Lear material is described in: Gallup, Donald C. "Collecting Edward Lear." The Yale University Library Gazette 61, no. 3/4 (1987): 125-42. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40858913. And in: Wilcox, Scott. Edward Lear and the art of travel. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2000.
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Two lists, in one gathering. The first is titled "Ionian Isles 1848" and occupies the first 3 leaves. With 134 listed drawings (two left blank), April 24 to May 28. Annotated below caption title: "Please return with drawings." Followed by two blank leaves. The second list, across five leaves, is captioned "Greece 1848." Enumerates drawings up to 134 (five of which have 'A' and 'B', and three of which are blank), from June 1 to July 27. The enumeration continues to leaves 4 and 5, though no drawings are listed. On the 4th leaf "Greece 1848" is crossed out, replaced with "Constantinople 1848."
Additional Notes:
Written in black ink, with additions in graphite.
Physical Description:
20 pages (some blank) ; 33 x 41 cm, folded to 33 x 21 cm
Genre:
Lists, Correspondence , and Pen and ink drawings
Subject Terms:
Description and travel
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852. By that lake, whose gloomy shore
Associated Places:
Greece
Ionian Islands (Greece)
Mediterranean Region
Associated People/Groups:
Lear, Edward, 1812-1888
Finding Aid Title:
Edward Lear archive
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11283.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2896679
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2896679?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1