One of four natural-history drawings.
Painting.
ca.1800 (made)
ca.1800 (made)
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A grey mullet. (Mugil cephalus).
Object details
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Title | One of four natural-history drawings. (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Watercolour on paper |
Brief description | Painting; watercolour, A grey mullet, Malacca, ca.1800 |
Physical description | A grey mullet. (Mugil cephalus). |
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Object history | Mildred Archer notes that the drawings were "almost certainly" collected by Edward Clive, First Earl of Powis (1754-1839), while he was Governor of Madras from 1798 to 1803 and were probably made by Chinese painters working for the British in Malacca. They were bought from Sotheby's, London, in January 1956 from the collection of the Earl of Powis, and were part of an album of 19 pictures, 4 of which were purchased by the V&A (IS.1-4-1956), and 15 by what was then the India Office Library (see Mildred Archer, Natural History Drawings in the India Office Library, p. 77). |
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Accession number | IS.1-1956 |
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Record created | January 24, 2008 |
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