Route de Casbinn à Téhéran Effet de neige
Drawing
1848 (drawn)
1848 (drawn)
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In 1846, the French government decided to send a mission to Persia, an expedition, led by the geographer Xavier Hommaire de Hell, to carry out further investigations. Laurens, a young artist who had studied in the studio of the painter Paul Delaroche, was employed to record the course of their journey in a series of images that, after his return in 1849, were used to illustrate Hommaire de Hell's Voyage en Turquie et en Perse (4 vols and atlas, 1854-60). Despite the rigours of the journey and an attack of fever, Laurens filled several sketch-books with his drawings of the people and landscapes they encountered. This one was made in February 1848, as they neared Tehran on the road from Qazvin, in temperatures well below zero (-240 was recorded one day). Despite the physical discomfort, Laurens's sensitive draughtsmanship is well illustrated in the carefully observed detail and gentle rhythms of this composition.
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Materials and techniques | Pencil, on thin paper |
Brief description | Drawing, `Route de Casbinn à Téhéran Effet de neige', 1848, by Jules-Joseph-Augustin Laurens |
Physical description | Drawing |
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Marks and inscriptions | Signed Jules Laurens; inscribed with title and dated 1848 |
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 via Crenshaw, Oct.1977, Fr.1600 ' [francs] |
Historical context | For a version of this view, see Pl. LVII, titled Téhéran, in I.M.X.Hommaire de Hell, Voyage en Turquie et en Perse, 4 vols., Paris, 1854-60. The journey, in temperatures well below freezing, between Qazvin and Tehran, in February 1848, is described in Hommaire de Hell, Voyage..., Vol. 3, Ch.XVII. |
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Summary | In 1846, the French government decided to send a mission to Persia, an expedition, led by the geographer Xavier Hommaire de Hell, to carry out further investigations. Laurens, a young artist who had studied in the studio of the painter Paul Delaroche, was employed to record the course of their journey in a series of images that, after his return in 1849, were used to illustrate Hommaire de Hell's Voyage en Turquie et en Perse (4 vols and atlas, 1854-60). Despite the rigours of the journey and an attack of fever, Laurens filled several sketch-books with his drawings of the people and landscapes they encountered. This one was made in February 1848, as they neared Tehran on the road from Qazvin, in temperatures well below zero (-240 was recorded one day). Despite the physical discomfort, Laurens's sensitive draughtsmanship is well illustrated in the carefully observed detail and gentle rhythms of this composition. |
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Accession number | SD.554 |
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Record created | February 23, 2008 |
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