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Album of Near Eastern Antiquities

Album
1820-1830 (made)
Artist/Maker

40 copies of illustrations in an album consisting of manuscript text, drawings and tracings, and plates, collated from a variety of sources on Near Eastern antiquities.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleAlbum of Near Eastern Antiquities (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil, pen and ink
Brief description
Third section of an album, comprising 38 drawings, tracings and copies after Le Bruyn, Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East Indies,1737, and after Ker Porter, Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. During the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820. Artist unknown, 1820-1830.
Physical description
40 copies of illustrations in an album consisting of manuscript text, drawings and tracings, and plates, collated from a variety of sources on Near Eastern antiquities.
Dimensions
  • Size of covers height: 31.1cm
  • Width: 47.9cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Most inscribed with title, some with notes, some numbered with number of original plate
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]. The drawings in SD.184:3 are copied from Le Bruyn, Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East Indies, 2 vols, 1737, Vol.II, Pls 118, 121, 128, 153, 163, and facing p.23, and from Ker Porter, Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia, Ancient Babylonia, &c. &c. During the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820, 2 vols, 1821-2, Vol.1, Pls 12-14, 16, 17, 29-43, 45-54, and Vol. 2, Pl. 50. Map of Persia and the Persian Gulf.
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.
Subjects depicted
Places depicted
Collection
Accession number
SD.184:3

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Record createdJune 12, 2008
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