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Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British, Boats on the Nile, 1867
- Title:
Boats on the Nile
- Date:
- 1867
- Medium:
- Watercolor, graphite, white gouache, pen and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 2 1/16 x 10 3/8 inches (5.2 x 26.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "piles of blue & white 'blameless'"; inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right: "579A"; Verso: inscribed in graphite, upper left: "147. up; inscribed in graphite, center: "Top"; inscribed in graphite, right center: "312"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1997.7.278
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boats | figures (representations) | genre subject | marine art | sails | studies (visual works)
- Associated Places:
- Africa | Nile
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5330
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