Art, literature & history
Avisavella, Ceylon
1884/1885
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- gray wash on wove paper, laid down on card
- Dimensions
- sheet: 9.5 x 14.6 cm (3 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2010.93.37
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Edward Lear. Avisavella, Ceylon. Edward Lear; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Lear,_Avisavella,_Ceylon,_1884-1885,_NGA_143733.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Avisavella, Ceylon — Edward Lear. 1884/1885.
Medium: gray wash on wove paper, laid down on card.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 9.5 x 14.6 cm (3 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2010.93.37. Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.