Album of Near Eastern Antiquities

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Album consisting of manuscript text, drawings and tracings, and plates, collated from a variety of sources on Near Eastern antiquities. Half-bound in calf

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Category	Drawings
Object type	Album
Title	Album of Near Eastern Antiquities (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Half-bound in calf
Brief description	Album consisting of manuscript text, drawings and tracings, and plates, collated from a variety of sources on Near Eastern antiquities. 1820-1830. Mostly copies after Cornelius de Bruyn and other artists including James Bruce, Dominique Vivant Denon, Frederick Norden, Sir Robert Ker Porter
Physical description	Album consisting of manuscript text, drawings and tracings, and plates, collated from a variety of sources on Near Eastern antiquities. Half-bound in calf
Dimensions	Size of covers height: 31.1cm Width: 47.9cm
Style	Orientalism
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	Rodney Searight Collection
Historical context	The album is roughly divisible into 6 parts [SD.184:1-6]. Regarding transcripts, tracings and copies, the compiler of the album may have used alternative editions of the publications mentioned. For attribution of the album to Sir Robert Ker Porter, see Searight Archive. The Temple of Taffeh depicted is now located in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, Netherlands.
Subjects depicted	Temples Ruins Reliefs Architectural Drawings Maps Sphinxes Obelisks
Places depicted	Egypt Asyut Lebanon Nahr Al-Kalb Persepolis Giza Nubia Temple of Dakka Al-Sabu Dandur Medinet Habu Luxor Thebes Ramesseum Karnak Esna Kom Ombo Edfu Aswan Philae Leiden Persia Elephantine Al-Ashmunayn Qus Naqsh-E Rustam Morghab Tomb of the Mother of Solomon Bisitun Axum Gebel El-Silsila Pasargadae
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	SD.184

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Record created	June 12, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O155898/album-of-near-eastern-antiquities-album-unknown/

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