Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Title:
The Marble Rocks — Nerbudda Jubbolpore
Date:
1882
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
15 x 9 1/2 inches (38.1 x 24.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "[monogram] | 1882"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.247
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
gorge | ravine | landscape | tourism | birds | rocks (landforms) | beauty | river
Associated Places:
Bharat | Jabalpur | Asia | Narmada | India
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11)

Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)
Publications:
Vidya Dehejia, Impossible picturesqueness, Edward Lear's Indian watercolours, 1873-1875 , no. 1, Columbia University Press, New York, 1989, pp. 6-7, NJ18 L455 D44 1989 + (YCBA)

Pratapaditya Pal, From merchants to emperors, British artists and India, 1757-1930 , Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1986, pp.124-6, N8214.5 I5 P25 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, p. 112, no. 131, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38739