drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1921,0614.29-58
- Description
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Album bound in green leather with gold tooling containing 30 numbered leaves with drawings on the recto, alternating with 30 unnumbered leaves with inscriptions on the verso (facing the drawings) including the titlepage, and 3 further blank leaves (including a fly-leaf), with costumes of Constantinople; the figures usually set against simple backgrounds, and including Kurd, Albanian, Georgian, Armenian, Jewish, Bedouin and Turkish men or women, and specifically an Egyptian groom, Greek sailor, Nubian slave, Turkish police, merchant, soldier, courier and boatman, Bulgarian shepherd, Persian dealer, dervishes, and two portraits of Mde Guido, Lady Canning's Genoese maid. 1844
Watercolour, with pen and brown ink outlines, often touched with bodycolour, white or gold, sometimes over graphite, mostly on thick buff paper (pasted in on inside edge)
- Production date
- 1844
- Dimensions
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Height: 265 millimetres
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Width: 199 millimetres (covers)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2019-2020 10 Oct - 26 Jan, London, BM, G35: "Inspired by the East: how the Islamic World influenced Western Art”
- Acquisition date
- 1921
- Acquisition notes
- From the Curzon and Baroness Zouche collections. Transferred from the Department of Manuscripts.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1921,0614.29-58
