Turkoman of Bokhara
Watercolour
1836 (painted)
1836 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Turkoman of Bokhara (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Water- and bodycolour over pencil |
| Brief description | Watercolour, `Turkoman of Bokhara', 1836, by Frederick Christian Lewis Jnr |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed with title; inscribed and dated on the back, in another hand, F.C.L. Junior, 1836. |
| 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 Christie's S. Ken, [4.8.80 (100)], £110 '. |
| Historical context | For other Persian portraits by the artist, see the Illustrated London News, 14 June 1873, pp.549 & 551. See also SD.1279. In 1836 Lewis was invited to Tehran by Sir John McNeill, Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Shah. He travelled there via Trebizond (Trabzon), Erzurum and Tabriz with Robert Macdonald: see Macdonald, Personal Narrative of Military Travel and Adventure in Turkey and Persia, Edinburgh, 1859, pp.90-3 et passim. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Searight, Rodney and Scarce, Jennifer M., A Middle Eastern journey : artists on their travels from the collection of Rodney Searight, Talbot Rice Art Centre, 1980 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | SD.580 |
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| Record created | February 25, 2008 |
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