The Second Cataract
Watercolour
1879-1885 (painted)
1879-1885 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | The Second Cataract (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Water- and bodycolour over pencil, heightened with white |
| Brief description | Watercolour, `The Second Cataract', 1879-85, by Major John Talbot Coke KO |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed and inscribed on the mount J.Talbot Coke Major K.O.B.Intelligence Department.: also on the mount G.A.Hoskins, June 1833. This cataract is from nine to fourteen miles long. -Dahabiyehs cannot as a rule ascend and above this nuggars are used. -Distance from Siut is 547 miles south.-; on the back inscribed 2nd Cataract Low Nile |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Object history | According to Rodney Searight: - `Bt Maggs Bros, Apl.1981, £46'. |
| Historical context | The original drawing was made by the traveller and antiquary George Alexander Hoskins (1802-1863) who travelled in Ethiopia with his Italian artist companion Signior L.Bandoni in 1833, and published Travels In Ethiopia, 1835. A lithograph after Hoskins's drawing appears opposite p.278, titled 2d. Cataract Of The Nile. SD239 seems to be a copy, either of the original drawing or of the lithograph. See Searight Archive. |
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| Accession number | SD.239 |
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| Record created | December 24, 2007 |
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