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Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British, Opposite Melaghara, 5:20 PM, undated
- Title:
Opposite Melaghara, 5:20 PM
- Additional Title(s):
Opposite Maghagha
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 2 5/16 x 5 7/8 inches (5.9 x 14.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink over graphite, lower left: "gray all. | Opposite Melaghara 5.20.P.M; in bdrown ink, center: "SEAREEF"; in bdrown ink, lower right: "Palms also, off shy. boats black 71"; Verso: in graphite, upper left: "14. up"; in graphite, lower center: "next above A"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1997.7.89
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boats | landscape | palm trees | river | sky | sunset
- Associated Places:
- Africa | Egypt | Maghâgha | Nile
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5112
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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]
Collecting (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1999-04-23 - 1999-07-10) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, pp. 82-3, no. 62, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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