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Recruiting at Assiut

Watercolour
1896 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Lindsay, Jane Evelyn (Lady) (painter (artist))
Place of origin
Egypt (painted)

Watercolour drawing


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Watercolour
TitleRecruiting at Assiut (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour over pencil, heightened with white, on stiff paper
Watercolour
Watercolour Drawing
Brief description
Watercolour, `Recruiting at Assiut,' 1896, by Lady Jane Evelyn Lindsay
Physical description
Watercolour drawing
Dimensions
  • Height: 24.8cm
  • Width: 35.2cm
Styles
British School
Orientalism
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed and dated on the back [in modern hands, copied from the original inscription] Assiut. January 23 Recruiting One English Officer boy managing it - and Assiut - recruiting Jan. 23d.
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: - `Sotheby's, 24.11.77; bt. from Covent Garden Gallery, 1978'
Historical context
SD.591 and SD.592 formed part of a large collection of watercolours and drawings by Lady Jane, sold by descendents in 1977. Subjects also included were portraits, designs for stained glass, illustrations to novels and poems, views of country houses associated with the family and other views in England, Europe and Egypt. Lady Jane apparently witnessed some of the preparations for the Anglo-Egyptian army's invasion of Sudan under General Kitchener in 1896: see Searight Archive, and T. Royle, The Kitchener Enigma, 1985.
Subject depicted
Recruiting
Places depicted
Egypt
Asyut
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
SD.591

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Record createdFebruary 27, 2008
Record URL
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