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Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British, El Areesh, 1867
- Title:
El Areesh
- Additional Title(s):
El Arish
- Date:
- 1867
- Medium:
- Watercolor, graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 2 1/16 x 4 11/16 inches (5.2 x 11.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "mom broadened | 4.45.AM. April 1.1867 | no red or yellow in sky: & light hardly lemon."; inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right: "El Arish | (35)"; Verso: inscribed in pen and brown ink, center: "176. up | Line next below top. middle"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Donald C. Gallup, Yale BA 1934, PhD 1939
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1997.7.326
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- landscape | moon | sky | water
- Associated Places:
- Africa | Arish, Wadi el | Egypt | Sinai Peninsula
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5378
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