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Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British, Gebel Es Silsilis, 1867
- Title:
Gebel Es Silsilis
- Additional Title(s):
Gebel el-Silsila
- Date:
- 1867
- Medium:
- Watercolor, graphite, pen and black ink and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 2 1/16 x 10 13/16 inches (5.2 x 27.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, over graphite; lower left: "Gebel Es Silsilis. 26' Jany. 1867. 11.30.AM." inscribed in pen with brown ink; over graphite, lower right: "(235)"; inscribed on verso in graphite, center: "58[?] up next below top | M[hule?]; inscribed in graphite, center right: "165"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1997.7.154
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- landscape | palm trees | river | river | water
- Associated Places:
- Africa | Nile | Upper Egypt
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5186
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