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View from the Mountains on the Peninsula of Sinai

Watercolour
1829-1834 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Watercolour drawing


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleView from the Mountains on the Peninsula of Sinai (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour, on stiff paper
Brief description
Watercolour, `View from the Mountains on the Peninsula of Sinai', 1829-1834, by Captain Robert Moresby
Physical description
Watercolour drawing
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.1cm
  • Width: 35.6cm
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed on the back No 8 and No.9 [crossed through] and on a label attached to the back with title and the Sea in the distance, the entrance of Acabah Gulph with the Island of Tehran in its centre.
  • BRISTOL HEATH & CO PAPER (paper stamped)
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. fr. Mrs. Schidlof. Dec. 1966 [with one other] £50' [i.e. SD.677-683]
Historical context
SD.677-684 were done during Moresby's Red Sea survey, 1829-34. Five further drawings from this series are in the National Maritime Museum, see Searight Archive.
B. Llewellyn, `Petra and the Middle East by British Artists in the Collection of Rodney Searight, Esq.', The Connoisseur, June 1980, pp.126-8.
See T. Elwon & R. Moresby, Sailing Directions for the Red Sea, 1841, pp.108, 118, 201.
Places depicted
Collection
Accession number
SD.678

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Record createdMarch 11, 2008
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