Gebel Sheikh Abu Fodde, 7:30 am, 4 March 1867 (590)
Date:
1867
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 3/8 × 9 7/8 inches (8.6 × 25.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, center right: "[...] sand | [...] W"; in pen and brown ink, center left: "blue"; in pen and brown ink, lower left: "Gebel Sheikh Abou Fodde. 7.30 AM. March 4. 1867."; in pen and brown ink, lower right:"(590)"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "159 up"; in graphite, center: "next above lowest"; in graphite, upper center: "315"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.281
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
windows | landscape | rocks (landforms) | cliffs | boats | water | sky | structures (single built works) | river | river | figures (representations)
Associated Places:
Africa | Egypt | Nile
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:
Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, p. 104, no. 117, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)