Off to Fashoda fighting the Sud
Watercolour
1898 (painted)
1898 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Off to Fashoda fighting the Sud (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and Indian ink, bodycolour, black wash, heightened with white, on card |
| Brief description | Watercolour,`Nearing Off to [deleted] Fashoda "fighting the "Sud", 1898, by Charles Joseph Staniland RI |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed C J.Staniland. inscribed with title, possibly in the artist's hand |
| 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 Maggs, March 1971, £5'. |
| Historical context | Reproduced in the The Graphic, 24 September 1898, p.408. The caption in The Graphic reads 'The Sirdar's Advance On Fashoda: Egyptian Gunboats Proceeding Up The Nile'. The drawing is after a sketch by C. T. Maud. `Fighting the Sud' in the artist's title refers to the plants collectively called `Sudd' [from an Arabic word meaning `obstruction'.] In the White Nile there is a vast area of swamp, also called the Sudd, filled with water plants, which make navigation very difficult. |
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| Accession number | SD.1002 |
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| Record created | April 8, 2008 |
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