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- Title:
Philae, 6:00-6:15 am, 31 January 1867 (277)
- Date:
- 1867
- Medium:
- Watercolor with pen and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, gray wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 2 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches (5.4 x 13.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "6-6.15 AM. 31 Jany 1867 hills very dark, water darkly blue. black hair | palms feather like} (277) | black"; in brown ink, upper right: blue, green, gray | blue green gray"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1997.7.168
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- landscape | palm trees | reflection | river | sunrise | water
- Associated Places:
- Africa | Egypt | Nile | Philae
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5204
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