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Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British, Abu Simbel, 1867
- Title:
Abu Simbel
- Date:
- 1867
- Medium:
- Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 2 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches (6.4 x 27 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "Abou Simbl. 8.30.AM.8.Feby. 1867. all pale - sky & hill."; inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right: "(370)"; Verso: inscribed in graphite, center: "95 up | next below [top?]"; inscribed in graphite upper right: "225"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1997.7.204
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cliffs | lake | landscape | sky | water
- Associated Places:
- Abu Simbel | Africa | Egypt | Nasir, Buhayrat | Nubia
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5254
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