Hassan: A Fellah Boy of Upper Egypt

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Artist/Maker	Haag (artist)
Place of origin	Cairo (made)

Carl Haag, a German-born travel artist, painted this watercolour in Cairo, Egypt, at the end of 1858. During a journey across the desert from Cairo to Suez, which he undertook with Frederick Goodall, Haag painted many watercolours (another example is in the V&A, 408-1891). The word 'Fellah' identifies the ordinary people of Egypt who were not slaves.

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Categories	Black History Historic Cairo
Object type	Watercolour
Title	Hassan: A Fellah Boy of Upper Egypt (popular title)
Materials and techniques	Watercolour Watercolour Watercolour Painting Watercolour Drawing
Brief description	Watercolour entitled 'Hassan, a Fellah Boy of Upper Egypt' by Carl Haag. British School, 1858.
Physical description	Watercolour drawing
Dimensions	Height: 34.2cm Width: 24.3cm
Credit line	Prescott Hewett Gift
Summary	Carl Haag, a German-born travel artist, painted this watercolour in Cairo, Egypt, at the end of 1858. During a journey across the desert from Cairo to Suez, which he undertook with Frederick Goodall, Haag painted many watercolours (another example is in the V&A, 408-1891). The word 'Fellah' identifies the ordinary people of Egypt who were not slaves.
Bibliographic reference	Marsh, Jan (ed.), Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900, London: Lund Humphries, 2005.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	410-1891

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Record created	May 22, 2006
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O124125/hassan-a-fellah-boy-of-watercolour-haag/

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