Mar Sabbas
Collotype
ca. 1882-1886 (printed), 1858 (drawn)
ca. 1882-1886 (printed), 1858 (drawn)
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Collotype, printed in brown, depicting the Mar Saba monastery in Palestine. Signed with the monograms EL AT, inscribed and dated 'Mar Sabbas 1858' and lettered 'Autotype No.48'.
Object details
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| Title | Mar Sabbas (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Collotype |
| Brief description | Collotype by Edward Lear entitled 'Mar Sabbas', an illustration of a Palestinian monastery to accompany the line 'Girt round with blackness' from Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'The Palace of Art'. British School, ca. 1882-1886. |
| Physical description | Collotype, printed in brown, depicting the Mar Saba monastery in Palestine. Signed with the monograms EL AT, inscribed and dated 'Mar Sabbas 1858' and lettered 'Autotype No.48'. |
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| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
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| Literary reference | Tennyson - The Palace of Art |
| Bibliographic reference | Lear began work on his scheme to illustrate Tennyson's poems several times, finally settling to the task in 1878. He initially hoped to publish the illustrations `in Autotype', but, displeased with the results of a few trials, subsequently prepared drawings for other means of reproduction, again without success. The Autotype Company published an edition of Turner's Liber Studiorum in 1882 3, where the plates are described as autotypes, although they are in fact collotypes: see Wakeman, p.105. In 1882, Lear appears to have ordered a copy of this edition: see RA, 1985, pp.129 146, and p.151. |
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| Accession number | SP.353 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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