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Women greeting travellers by throwing barley to them, observed near the village of Ciala Kavak [Kawak] in Bulgaria
Watercolour
1794-1795 (painted)
1794-1795 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Women greeting travellers by throwing barley to them, observed near the village of Ciala Kavak [Kawak] in Bulgaria (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Ink and wash, squared in pencil |
| Brief description | Watercolour, Women greeting travellers by throwing barley to them, observed near the village of Ciala Kavak [Kawak] in Bulgaria, 1794-1795, by Luigi Mayer |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed Donne che complimentano li Passaggeri gettando loro dell'orzo osservato vicino il villaggio di Ciali Kavak nella Bulgaria and signed L. Mayer delin.
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| 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. from Michael Spratt, 1983' |
| Historical context | SD.650-653 were probably executed in 1794 during the journey of Ainslie and his suite through the Balkans when returning to England from Constantinople. Thirty-two similar drawings from this journey, one dated 4 July 1794, are in a private collection, London: see list in Searight Archive. For details of Ainslie's party and their route, see extract from Foreign Office papers in Searight Archive. For the subject, see Mayer, Ottoman Dominions, 1810, Pl.19, Ciala Kavak, and Pl.20, Dance of Bulgarian Peasants; also in Mayer, Turkey in Europe and Asia, 1801[-06], [Part 1], Pls 8 & 9 (see SP.379 & SP.380). |
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| Bibliographic reference | See large group of gouche drawings by Luigi Mayer, commissioned by Robert Ainslie (1729-1812) in Adam's Country House Collections at Slane Castle, Co. Meath, catalogue of auction held on 6th October 2009, lots 517 to 542. |
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| Accession number | SD.650 |
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| Record created | March 2, 2008 |
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