Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 2 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches (7.3 x 27 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "7.30 AM 31 Jany.1867. Dehmyt."; in brown ink over graphite, lower right: "(278)"; Verso: in graphite, center: "75.up | next above lowest
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.169
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | palm trees | riverbank | river | sky
Associated Places:
Africa | Nubia | Nile | Egypt | Nubia
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. 80, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)