Amada Nubia
Watercolour
1905-1912 (painted)
1905-1912 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Amada Nubia (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour, laid down on board |
| Brief description | Watercolour, `Amada Nubia' [Reliefs in the Temple of Amun-Re and Re-Harakhte], 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 1803 Wm Heinemann rec Mch 23 [...] Apl 6 |
| 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 Sotheby's, May 4th 1977 [(220)], £44.' [The sale included several other watercolours by Tyndale from the same source, the collection of Timothy Tyndale Daniell. Possibly exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, London, Egypt, 1907 (7). See SD.1069.] |
| Historical context | Possibly intended for reproduction in a proposed sequel to Below the Cataracts, 1907, published by Heinemann. The relief represents Seshat, the goddess of writing, with Tuthmosis III, marking out the foundation of the Temple. Tyndale visited Egypt several times 1905-1911, working for E. Naville, until 1908. 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. |
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| Accession number | SD.1070 |
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| Record created | April 12, 2008 |
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