Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Title:
Near Suez, evening, 15 January 1849 (43)
Date:
1849
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches (13.3 x 23.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen with brown ink, lower left: "Near Suez | Evening"; in pen with brown ink, lower right: "43"; Verso: in graphite, lower center: 'D. Gallup"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.52
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
camels (mammals) | desert | saddles | genre subject | smokers | robes | rocks (landforms) | feed mechanisms | sand | turbans | smoke | men
Associated Places:
Egypt | Africa | Suez
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:
The lure of the east : British Orientalist painting: wall labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. [90], V 2577 (YCBA) V 2577

The lure of the East, British orientalist painting, 1830-1925 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 16, V 1879 (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, p. 64, no. 36, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4912