About the Artwork
Bengemma, Malta, March 1, 1866
1866
Edward Lear
1812-1888
English
Unknown
Ink and watercolor on paper
Image (by sight): 8 × 15 3/4 inches (20.3 × 40 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of John S. Newberry
59.54
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Markings
Inscribed, in pen and black ink, lower right: / 81 / Inscribed, in pencil (written over in black ink), verso, right of center: 14 upn [illegible] | lowest Inscribed, verso, lower right of center: Bengemma, Malta | 1 March 1866
Provenance
George Dix (New York, New York, USA)
John S. Newberry (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1959-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Time Magazine (December 15, 1947, (ill.).
Drawings and Watercolors by Edward Lear. Exh. cat., George Dix Gallery. New York, 1947, no. 21.
Drawings and Watercolors Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries from the Collection of John S. Newberry. Exh. cat., Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1948, p. 22.
The John S. Newberry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1965, p. 54.
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Edward Lear, Bengemma, Malta, March 1, 1866, 1866, ink and watercolor on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of John S. Newberry, 59.54.
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