Watercolor with pen and brown ink, pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 13 3/4 × 20 1/8 inches (34.9 × 51.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in gray ink over graphite, lower left: "Aboo Simble | 11-11.30 AM. | 8.Feby. 1867; in gray ink, lower right: "(374)"; in graphite, verso, center; "21.Longwise | above"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1559
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sand | cliffs | monument | shore (landform) | sculpture | landscape | river | lake | sky | river | figures (representations) | rocks (landforms)
Associated Places:
Nubia | Abu Sunbul | Nile | Egypt | Africa | Lake Nasser | As Said | Aswan
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)Works of Splendor and Imagination - The Exhibition Watercolor 1770-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-09-16 - 1981-11-22)
Publications:
Jenny Gaschke, Edward Lear, Egyptian sketches , National Maritime Museum, London, 2009, p. 54, NJ18 L455 G37 2009 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, p. 95, no. 93, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)