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Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British, Thebes, 1854
- Title:
Thebes
- Additional Title(s):
View on the Nile
- Date:
- 1854
- Medium:
- Watercolor, graphite, and pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 1 7/8 x 6 3/16 inches (4.8 x 15.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right: "21. January.1854. 6.P.M. | 114"; inscribed on verso in pen and black ink, upper right: "uppermost"; in graphite, center right: "Thebes"; in pen and brown ink, center left: "24"; in graphite, lower center: "100"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939, in memory of Paul Horgan
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1997.7.55
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- figures (representations) | landscape | river | river | sky | structure (single built work) | trees | water
- Associated Places:
- Africa | Egypt | Nile | Thebes
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4915
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