Album of Near Eastern Antiquities
Album
1820-1830 (made)
1820-1830 (made)
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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
Object details
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| Title | Album of Near Eastern Antiquities (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Half-bound in calf |
| Brief description | First section of an album, comprising 11 pages of manuscript text and drawings, copied and abridged from James Bruce, Travels to discover the Source of the Nile, 1805. Artist unknown, 1820-1830. |
| 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 |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Most inscribed with title; map inscribed with place names |
| 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]. SD.184:1 is copied and abridged from James Bruce, Travels to discover the Source of the Nile, 1805, 2nd edition, 8 vols including plate volume, Edinburgh and London, 1805, Book I, Chapters V and VI. Tracings of Pls 6,7,10,11, and 13, from the plate volume, and a diagrammatic map from Cairo to the Island of Philae (presumably of Bruce's journey). 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. |
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| Accession number | SD.184:1 |
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| Record created | June 12, 2008 |
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