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Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British, Dawn on the Nile, 1867
- Title:
Dawn on the Nile
- Date:
- 1867
- Medium:
- Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on thick, rough, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 2 3/4 x 10 11/16 inches (7 x 27.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "6.20. AM. Jany.26.1867 near"; inscribed in pen and brown ink, center: "very dark & solemn. dark sandstone all (sun rises beyond o) del[--?] not seen- purple [okes?]"; inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right: "(231)"; Verso: inscribed in graphite, center: "Top."; inscribed in graphite, upper left: "58 up"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "164"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1997.7.153
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- landscape | river | river | riverbank | sky | water
- Associated Places:
- Africa | Egypt | Nile
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5185
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