File:'5.5.A.M. March 4 1867. Manfaloot (586)' RMG PU9094.tiff
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English: '5.5.A.M. March 4 1867. Manfaloot (586)' This watercolour of the sun rising over the Nile with the silhouette of a lone dahabeeyah, a traditional cargo-vessel, on the left, was made by Edward Lear on his third visit to Egypt in 1867. The scene is bathed in purple hues and conveys a deliberately poetical quality. Although Lear worked in the tradition of British topographical art, his drawings leave behind its documentary attitude, which recorded landscape and geographical features for the benefit of their antiquarian and natural historical associations. If, as in the case of his Egyptian images, the past is alluded to, Lear conveys it with a mysterious and exotic character, rather than attempting to re-establish the historical and particularly biblical topography which had drawn other travellers to the Near and Middle East. It is mostly the colours in their own right which are intended to trigger poetical sentiment in the beholder and characterize the scene as picturesque. |
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| Date | 4 March 1867 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Mount: 75 mm x 175 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | Box Title: D.116 M1434-1444. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/113245 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
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| Identifier | Picture Department Petrel Project Number: M1442 id number: PAD9094 |
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| Collection | Fine art | ||||||||||||||||||||
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