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Rocky Valley of Mosta, Malta, 1:30 p.m. (April 3, 1866)

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Date

1866

Artist

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Collection

Yale Center for British Art

Image Link

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:61355

Description

Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968

Inscription

Inscribed in artist's hand in pen and brown ink upper left: "alm[...]"; in artist's hand in pen and brown ink upper centre: "deep blue"; in artist's hand in pen and brown ink over graphite upper centre: "deep gray"; in artist's hand in pen and brown ink over graphite centre left: "all immense stone rounded"; in artist's hand in pen and brown ink centre: "oker"; in artist's hand in pen and brown ink over graphite centre right: "deep rusty | very red oker | very gray slope"; in artist's hand in pen and brown ink lower left: "Rocky Valley of Malta Malta | 1.30 PM April 3 1866 | great hum of bees or flies black birds' song - | sitting on a gray rock"; in artist's hand in pen and brown ink lower centre: "gray | white bolder | Mysterious crushy noise | children on the path up to the shrine"; in artist's hand in graphite lower right: "Rocky Valley of Mosta | Malta | [...] 3 April"; in artist's hand in pen and brown ink lower right: "(274)".

Descriptive Medium

Watercolour, pen and brown ink, white gouache, and graphite

Image Licence

Public Domain, Yale Center for British Art

Image Credit

image credit Yale Center for British Art

Location

Mosta, Malta

Country

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Cliffs
Figures
Landscapes
People
Religious Buildings
Sky
Valleys
Vegetation

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

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