Pen in brown ink with brown wash over graphite on very thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/8 x 12 7/16 inches (23.8 x 31.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen with brown ink, upper left: "No. 8"; inscribed in pen with brown ink, lower left: "Stretched wild and wide the waste enormous marsh." | "The Pontine Marshes from above Terracina."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.603
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | sea | hill | structure (single built work) | coast
Associated Places:
Italy | Pontine Marshes | Latina | Lazio | Terracina
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. 114, no. 132, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)