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The Cleopatra Cylinder Vessel

Oil Painting
1878 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Cooke, Edward William (RA, FRS, FSA) (painter (artist))

Oil painting, 'The Cleopatra Cylinder Vessel', Edward William Cooke, 1878


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Oil painting
TitleThe Cleopatra Cylinder Vessel
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Oil Paint
Canvas
Oil Painting
Brief description
Oil painting, 'The Cleopatra Cylinder Vessel', Edward William Cooke, 1878
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 87.6cm
  • Estimate width: 137.2cm
  • Frame height: 121cm
  • Frame width: 170.5cm
  • Frame depth: 9.5cm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style
British School
Marks and inscriptions
'E W Cooke/1878' (Signed and dated by the artist, lower right)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Sir Erasmus Wilson
Object history
Bequeathed by Sir Erasmus Wilson, 1886
Subject depicted
Ship
Bibliographic references
  • Parkinson, R., Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 44-45
  • Evans, Mark et al. Vikutoria & Arubāto Bijutsukan-zō : eikoku romanshugi kaigaten = The Romantic tradition in British painting, 1800-1950 : masterpieces from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Japan : Brain Trust, 2002
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
1294-1886

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Record createdFebruary 19, 2007
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O132033/the-cleopatra-cylinder-vessel-oil-painting-cooke-edward-william/
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