Head of an Arab Boy
Drawing
1862 (drawn)
1862 (drawn)
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Drawing in an album containing portrait, figure and animal sketches (11), mounted on 10 pages of gilt-edged card. Half-bound in green morocco stamped in gilt on front cover Sketches, by Elijah Walton
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Title | Head of an Arab Boy (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Pencil, pen and brown ink |
Brief description | Drawing, Head of an Arab Boy, 1862, in an album by Elijah Walton |
Physical description | Drawing in an album containing portrait, figure and animal sketches (11), mounted on 10 pages of gilt-edged card. Half-bound in green morocco stamped in gilt on front cover Sketches, by Elijah Walton |
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Marks and inscriptions | Signed Elijah Walton.; inscribed and dated on album leaf in another hand Drawn on the Mount of Olives Mar 25th 1862. |
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: - `[Previous owner of the album was Francis Gray Smart] Bt fr Holder, Oct.1970, £15 '. |
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Accession number | SD.1172:2 |
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Record created | April 23, 2008 |
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