Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 3 1/4 × 9 7/8 inches (8.3 × 25.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center: "dark gray cloud | [...]"; in pen and brown ink, center right: "sand [...]"; in pen and brown ink, lower left: "near (?) Beer El Abt. 4.30. PM. March 28. 1867. This "little", or "short" desert, is big & long enough"; in pen and brown ink, lower right "23)"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "172 up | Lowest"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1997.7.320
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
tents | sky | desert | clouds | landscape | sand
Associated Places:
Africa | Sinai
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
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. 105, no. 121, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)