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Edward Lear

Mahée from Fort St. George, dated November 1874

Description

Maker

  • Edward Lear, 1812-1888, English

Title

Mahée from Fort St. George

Year

dated November 1874

Medium

Watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • watercolor,
  • pen and ink

Supports

  • Cream paper

Dimensions

Plate: 36.7 x 55.2 cm (14 7/16 x 21 3/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in pencil and ink:Manee-from St. George/Nov"/AM/1874 & color notes; inscribed "Gustave Edward Daudry"

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

80.239.11

Projects & Publications

Publications

How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear

Watercolors by Edward Lear from Rhode Island Collections

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

“Grisogorious Places”

September 14, 2012 - May 19, 2013

Lear was more than sixty years old when Lord Northbook, viceroy of India, invited him to tour India at his expense. Lear’s immediate reaction upon arriving in Bombay was one of “violent and amazing delight” at the “colours, & costumes, & myriadism of impossible picturesqueness!,” yet Lear made few pictures of the cities or people of India. He instead preferred the more tranquil scenes he found on his long and exhausting journey down the western Malabar coast. In the French protectorate of Mahé, he drew this scene from the vantage point of a ruined fort once belonging to the Sultan Tippoo Sahib. Lear’s host in the region was one Captain Baudry, whose name appears at the bottom center of the drawing.

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