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Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British, Qaw el Kebir, 1867
- Title:
Qaw el Kebir
- Additional Title(s):
Gau el Kebir
- Date:
- 1867
- Medium:
- Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, blue wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 5 1/2 x 5 inches (14 x 12.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "Gau el Kebir 9.AM. Jany 10. 1867"; inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right: "(115)"; Verso: inscribed in graphite, center: "27 up | middle - right"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1997.7.109
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- figures (representations) | genre subject | river | river | study (visual work) | water
- Associated Places:
- Africa | Nile | Qaw el Kebir | Upper Egypt
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5133
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