Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British
Title:
Near Suez, 1 pm, 16 January 1849 (48)
Date:
1849
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 3/16 x 9 1/16 inches (13.2 x 23 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "1 P.M. | near Suez"; in graphite, center right: "48"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.53
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
studies (visual works) | animal art | saddles | figure (illustration) | sand | robes | barrel | turbans | blankets (coverings) | bags (containers) | camels (mammals) | harnesses | desert | genre subject
Associated Places:
Egypt | As-Suways | Urban | Suez | Africa
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus : Blue (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-04-05 - 2019-08-11)

Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)

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.17, V 1879 (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, pp. 18, 65, no. 37, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4913