Une Caravane en Repos en Kabylie
Watercolour
1885 (painted)
1885 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Une Caravane en Repos en Kabylie (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil, on thick paper |
| Brief description | Watercolour, `Une Caravane en Repos en Kabylie', 1885, by Gustavo Simoni |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed and dated G.Simoni.1885.; inscribed on old label formerly attached to frame with title, No 2 and G. Simone c/o A Brébant 74 Rue D'Amsterdam Paris
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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 Gorman, Ringwood, c.1966? - £6?'. |
| Historical context | Also originally attached to the frame was part of an exhibition catalogue of Grundy & Smith, Manchester (no date), including this watercolour as no.712, price £90. Cf. an oil version (61 x 90 cm.), The Halt of the Caravan, signed and dated 1885, with the Mathaf Gallery, London, 1984. See C. Juler, Les Orientalistes De L'École Italienne, Paris, 1987, p.246. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Searight, Rodney and Scarce, Jennifer M., A Middle Eastern journey : artists on their travels from the collection of Rodney Searight, Talbot Rice Art Centre, 1980 |
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| Accession number | SD.967 |
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| Record created | April 3, 2008 |
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