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View of the Black Sea from the Giants Mount.

Drawing
1844 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Drawing


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleView of the Black Sea from the Giants Mount. (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pencil
Brief description
Drawing,`View of the Black Sea from the Giants Mount', 1844. Possibly by Sir George Scharf KCB FSA
Physical description
Drawing
Dimensions
  • Height: 18.2cm
  • Width: 24.4cm
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed with title, dated 21 May 1844 and numbered No 39
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A
Historical context
SD.920-SD.930 are probably from a sketchbook. Although acquired at the same time as SD.915-SD.919, SD.920-SD.930 are on different paper and are possibly in a different hand. The NPG sketchbooks include sketches of Sicily and Basel dated April and May 1844, showing that Scharf could not have been in Constantinople at that time. The possibility that the inscriptions may have been added by a collector rather than the artist may account both for the discrepancies in dates and for the similarity of some of the handwriting.
Places depicted
Collection
Accession number
SD.927

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Record createdApril 2, 2008
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