Main Entrance of Great Mosque, (Ulu cami) Bursa, Turkey,
Date:
between 1840 and 1841
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches (29.8 x 47.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite upper right: "100"; inscribed on back in graphite upper left: "0165 Lewis Mosque Door B[ . . . ]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1824
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
turbans | columns | architecture | curtains | mihrabs | architectural subject | men | mosque | study (visual work)
Associated Places:
Turkey | Bursa Grand Mosque | Bursa
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)Orientalism - Near East in French Painting (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1982-08-27 - 1982-10-17)Orientalism - Near East in French Painting (Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, 1982-11-04 - 1982-12-23)
Publications:
Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, pp. 164-5, no. 184, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)