Oran from Mers el Kebir
Watercolour
1870 (painted)
1870 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil, heightened with white, on thick paper, attached to old mount |
| Brief description | Watercolour, Oran from Mers el Kebir [Marsa al-Kabir], by Sir John Baptist Joseph, 12th Baron Dormer |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed with title and dated 1870, and again on the old mount; inscribed and dated on typed label similarly |
| 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: `[with] Alister Mathews....[then] acquired [by R. Searight] at Sotheby's ... April 14th 1976' [with SD.345-353]. |
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| Accession number | SD.344 |
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| Record created | January 16, 2008 |
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