Mt. Sinai
Drawing
1849 (drawn)
1849 (drawn)
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Drawing
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| Title | Mt. Sinai (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and brown ink and pencil |
| Brief description | Drawing, Mt. Sinai, 1849, by Edward Lear |
| Physical description | Drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed with title and dated twice Jany 26.1849, and numbered twice (144); inscribed Gebel Esofthava (?) Gebel Es Shereef Bistan. El Erbayn Ledja. Gebel Arabba Er Rabba and with further notes |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Object history | According to Rodney Searight: - `The Property of an American Collector' at Sotheby's 29.11.73 (185). `Bt Spink, Dec.1973, £350 [in part exchange]'. |
| Historical context | Accompanied by John Cross, Lear left Cairo for Sinai on 12 January 1849, returning to Suez on 4 February: see RA, 1985 (55). Other drawings from the trip were sold at Sotheby's 29.11.73 and 21.3.74. The view shows the Wadi Ligah with a monastery (the Deir al-Arbayn). This is to the west of the Wadi al-Deir in which is situated the Monastery of Saint Catherine. Prominent are Gabal Safsaf (Mount Horeb), Gabal Musa (Mount Sinai) and Gabal al-Rabbah. See Searight Archive. |
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| Accession number | SD.560 |
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| Record created | February 24, 2008 |
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