Ispahan - Cour intérieure de la grande Mosquée
Watercolour
1841-1842 (drawn)
1841-1842 (drawn)
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Watercolour drawing
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil and brown wash, heightened with white, on card |
| Brief description | Watercolour, `Ispahan - Cour intérieure de la grande Mosquée', 1841-1842, by Eugène-Napoléon Flandin |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed Eug Flandin, numbered 31 on the back, and inscribed with title on former mount |
| 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 Crenshaw, Dec.1977, abt £100'. |
| Historical context | This is a reduced version of a drawing (pencil, heightened with white, on blue paper), titled and dated grande Mosquée à Ispahan. 28 Mai 1840. in VAM, DPD (D.408-1897). Compare a view from the other side of the courtyard of the Masjid-i-Shah in Flandin & Coste, Voyage en Perse. Perse Moderne, Pl.LVI. For a description of the mosque see Flandin & Coste, Voyage en Perse ... Relation de Voyage, 1851, Vol.I, p.346. |
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| Accession number | SD.383 |
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| Record created | January 18, 2008 |
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