The Bombardment of St. Jean DAcre - November 3rd - 1840 - | White, Richard Dunning (Lieutenant)

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Artist/Maker	White, Richard Dunning (Lieutenant) (painter)
Place of origin	Israel (painted)

Watercolour drawing

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Category	Paintings
Object type	Watercolour
Title	The Bombardment of St. Jean DAcre - November 3rd - 1840 - (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Watercolour, with scraping out Watercolour Watercolour Watercolour Drawing
Brief description	Watercolour, `The Bombardment of St. Jean D'Acre - November 3rd - 1840 - ', by Richard Dunning White RN
Physical description	Watercolour drawing
Dimensions	Height: 36.1cm Width: 56.4cm
Styles	British School Orientalism
Marks and inscriptions	Inscribed on the back with title and [M W] White; inscribed variously with title, artist's name and rank, and names of ships on mount
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. Christies - June 1970, £63'.
Historical context	Reproduced as a lithograph by M.Bellanti (in National Maritime Museum: see Searight Archive). At the time, White was a Lieutenant on HMS Thunderer.
Subjects depicted	Battles Warships Steamships Bombardment of St. Jean D'Acre
Places depicted	Israel Acre
Bibliographic references	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 Searight, Rodney. The Middle East : watercolours and drawings by British and foreign artists and travellers, 1750-1900, from the collection of Rodney Searight, Esq. London, 1971
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	SD.1198

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Record created	April 24, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O153352/the-bombardment-of-st-jean-watercolour-white-richard-dunning/

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