The Temple of Hatshepsoo at Thebes
Watercolour
1905-1912 (painted)
1905-1912 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | The Temple of Hatshepsoo at Thebes (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil, on board |
| Brief description | Watercolour, `The Temple of Hatshepsoo at Thebes' [Reliefs in the Second Colonnade], 1905-1912, by Walter Frederick Roofe Tyndale RI |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed Walter Tyndale; inscribed on the back with title and by Walter Tyndale R.I and Price [... erased] |
| 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. G.Norman, March 1966, £5'. [Possibly exhibited at Leicester Galleries, London, "An Artist in Egypt", 1912, (3), and/or FAS, London, "Tunis and the Near East", 1920 (16).] |
| Historical context | Reproduced in W. Tyndale, An Artist in Egypt, 1912, facing p.184, titled The Birth Colonnade In The Temple Of Hatshepsu. Tyndale visited Egypt several times 1905-1911, working for E. Naville, until 1908, in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Luxor, copying reliefs in the Second Colonnade. He held exhibitions of his Egyptian drawings at the Leicester Galleries, in 1907 and 1912, and published Below the Cataracts, 1907, and An Artist in Egypt, 1912. See Mathaf Gallery, 1984 and cf. no.30 (illustrated). |
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| Accession number | SD.1069 |
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| Record created | April 12, 2008 |
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