Kiz Kulesi (Leander's or Maiden's Tower) in the Bosphorus with Ayazma Camii near the shore at Üsküdar (Scutari)
Watercolour
ca. 1820 (painted)
ca. 1820 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Kiz Kulesi (Leander's or Maiden's Tower) in the Bosphorus with Ayazma Camii near the shore at Üsküdar (Scutari) (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink and watercolour over pencil |
| Brief description | Watercolour, Kiz Kulesi (Leander's or Maiden's Tower) in the Bosphorus with Ayazma Camii near the shore at Üsküdar (Scutari), about 1820. Artist unknown |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| 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: - `WT Spencer, Jan. 1970, £20'. |
| Historical context | SD.1263-SD.1270 may be copies of, or derived from, Canning's anonymous Greek artist (see SD.1261 & SD.1262). There may also be a connection with John Cam Hobhouse and Lord Byron who toured Greece and Turkey together, 1809-10: see J. C. Hobhouse, A Journey through Albania...to Constantinople... 1809 and 1810, 1813, For former suggested attributions see Searight Archive, under `English School'. See also SD.1065 & SD.1066 by Mrs W. Turner . SD.1263-1265 appear to be by the same hand, and possibly also SD.1266-1268. The artist may have been an English visitor to Constantinople. For a copy or version of this, see SD.1065. The palace was destroyed in the early C19th and rebuilt c.1853. |
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| Accession number | SD.1265 |
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| Record created | April 29, 2008 |
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