Pyramids At Sunset
Watercolour
ca. 1913 (painted)
ca. 1913 (painted)
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| Place of origin |
Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Pyramids At Sunset (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour, on Whatman's water colour sketching board |
| Brief description | Watercolour, Pyramids At Sunset, about 1913, by Major George Henry Benton Fletcher |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed with monogram HBF; inscribed on the back A Pond at Gizeh By Benton Fletcher 6. Buckingham Street. S.W. |
| 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. fr. Abbott & Holder, Barnes April 1964 £4.4/ ' [i.e. 4 guineas.] Exhibited at the Fine Arts Society, Water-Colours of Egypt and its Temples, July 1914 (13). On the back of the frame was a Fine Art Society label inscribed with the title, artist's name and exhibition date and catalogue number. |
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| Accession number | SD.385 |
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| Record created | January 18, 2008 |
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