Lateral Elevation of the Typhonium at Dendera
Watercolour
1848 (painted)
1848 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Lateral Elevation of the Typhonium at Dendera (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil, water- and bodycolour heightened with white, stuck down on card |
| Brief description | Watercolour, `Lateral Elevation of the Typhonium at Dendera', 1848, by David Roberts RA |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed [by Louis Haghe ?] with title, signed and dated David Roberts R.A. 1848 |
| 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 PHW [Prue Heathcote-Williams], March 1972, £90'. [Roland Beckett, Alpine Gallery, London, March 1972 (69).] |
| Historical context | Reproduced as Egypt and Nubia, 1846-49, Vol.II, [Pl.25], (1855 edn. Vol.V, Pl.193), lithograph by Louis Haghe. Possibly one of the watercolours which the artist worked up for reproduction from an earlier sketch. It shows the Roman Mammisi in front of the Christian Basilica; in the left background is the Temple of Hathor. Roberts visited and took measurements at Dendara on 19 October 1838 on his way up the Nile. On his way down river he stopped there to make drawings on 6-8 December. See also Ballantine, pp.88-9 & 99. |
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| Accession number | SD.872 |
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| Record created | March 27, 2008 |
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