TitleFrom 30 Drawings of Nile Journey, No. 19
Artist
Elihu Vedder
(1836 - 1923)
Date1890
MediumCrayon, charcoal and white chalk on dark green paper
DimensionsSheet size: 7 1/2 × 10 15/16 in.
SignedSigned in crayon at bottom right: "E. Vedder 1890".
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, Gift of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1955
Object number1981.91
Label TextVedder was an enthusiastic admirer of Egypt's cultural history and unique landscape. While visiting the country in 1890, he took a boat trip along the Nile during which he created this drawing, one in a series of thirty collectively entitled "Up the Nile." The group included depictions of such sights as the Sphinx, a ruined mosque, a cemetery, and several tombs. The nuanced, yet colorful overcast sky and deep shadows of this work, however, suggest the Egyptian landscape's mystery phrased in meteorological terms alone.
c. 1829-1869
