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The Dead Sea

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Description: The Dead Sea

TitleThe Dead Sea

Creator nameLear, Edward

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (Modern)

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1858

Creation date (description)April 16 and 17, 1858

Object typePainting

MaterialsPen and brown ink with watercolor over graphite on heavy textured wove paper

Dimensions14 1/2 × 21 3/4 in. (36.8 × 55.2 cm)

LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:6290

Accession numberB1975.4.1933

SubjectsPainting, British--19th centuryWatercolor painting--TechniqueDead Sea (Israel and Jordan)

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Edward Lear (1812–1888)
Cat. nos. 83–84

Matthew Hargraves

Description: Great British Watercolors: From the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for...

Great British Watercolors: From the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art

~~Edward Lear once joked about traveling in the Middle East: “Why need you not starve in the...

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Matthew Hargraves

PublisherYale Center for British Art

PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 2007 by Yale University

Related print edition pages: pp.188-191

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00227.043

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Chapter subject tags:Watercolor painting, British--ExhibitionsWatercoloristsLear, Edward, 1812-1888Temple of Amada (Egypt)Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan)

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