Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 2 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches (5.4 x 13.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "6-6.15 AM. 31 Jany 1867 hills very dark, water darkly blue. black hair | palms feather like} (277) | black"; in brown ink, upper right: blue, green, gray | blue green gray"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.168
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sunrise | palm trees | water | river | landscape | reflection
Associated Places:
Africa | Philae | Nile | Egypt
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Edward Lear, Moment to Moment (IKON Gallery, 2022-09-09 - 2022-11-13)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.[ 84], V 2577 (YCBA) V 2577The 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, p. 90, no. 79, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)