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Creator:
Edward Lear, 1812–1888
Title:

Corfu from Ascension

Date:
ca. 1860
Medium:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
13 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (34.3 x 54.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

signed

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Sophie and Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1979.11
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
ancient | citadel | Hellenistic | herd | island | landscape | mountains | Paradise | poet | ruins | sea | sheep | shepherd | temple | village
Associated Places:
Ascension | Corfu | Greece | Iónioi Nísoi | Kérkira, Nísos
Access:
Not on view
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:494
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Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Edward Lear (Royal Academy) (National Academy Museum & School, 1985-09-09 - 1985-11-03) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Edward Lear (Royal Academy) (Royal Academy of Arts, 1985-04-20 - 1985-07-14) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986, Yale Center for British Art , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 15, no. 33, N590.2 A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 144-145, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 15, no. 33, N1 B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, pp. 68-9, no. 42, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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