Omer Pacha
Watercolour
1853 (painted)
1853 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Omer Pacha (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil, water- and bodycolour |
| Brief description | Watercolour, `Omer Pacha', 1853. [Omar Pasha]. Attributed to Amadeo, 5th Count Preziosi |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed on a label formerly attached to the back of the old frame with title and From a Sketch, from Nature. By "Le Commandant. Pita. del. Coro." 2d Aide-de-Camp to General Prim. Comte. de. Reuss. Taken on 12 Nov. 1853 on the heights of Torto Kan, on the Danube, & after the Battle of Oltenitza.
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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: Bonham's, 19/2/75 [128], £25'. |
| Historical context | This watercolour is stylistically close to Preziosi and may have been worked up by him from an on-the-spot sketch by 'Le Commandant' Pita del Corro. Omar Pasha was the commander-in-chief of the Turkish army in the 1840s and 1850s. For another portrait, see ILN, 31 December 1853, p.596. The Battle of Oltenitza (in Romania), 4 November 1853, during which the Turks successfully fought the Russians, was one of the preliminary actions of the Crimean War. Torto Kan is probably Tutrakan on the opposite (Bulgarian) side of the Danube. See Lord Eversley, The Turkish Empire, 2nd. edn., 1923, p.302. Demand for Preziosi's oriental characters was such that several examples exist in more than one version. Three large groups of these single figure studies are known. One is in the VAM, DPD (D.14-D.47-1907) and can be dated c.1843 (see VAM, Constantinople, 1985, pp.42-5); another is in the BM, PD (197 b.15), in an album commissioned by Robert Curzon (1810-1873), later 14th Baron del la Zouche, titled and dated Costumes of Constantinople 1844 (see VAM, Constantinople, 1985, pp.8, 23 n.14, 42); the other is in an album, titled and dated Turkish Costumes [...] 1851, sold at Christie's, 25.6.87 (132). (See lists in Searight Archive). |
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| Accession number | SD.837 |
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| Record created | March 24, 2008 |
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