Alcouz. The Barber's Fourth Brother

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Von Brockdorff, Charles Frederick (painter)

Drawing in an album containing six drawings, mounted on stiff card edged with gilt in an album of 12 pages. Half-bound in morocco, lettered with title in gilt on spine.

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Category	Watercolours
Object type	Watercolour
Title	Alcouz. The Barber's Fourth Brother (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Watercolour over pencil
Brief description	'Alcouz. The Barber's Fourth Brother'. Drawing in an album containing six drawings, probably intended for illustrations for an unidentified edition of The Arabian Nights. Formerly attributed to Charles Frederick von Brockdorff
Physical description	Drawing in an album containing six drawings, mounted on stiff card edged with gilt in an album of 12 pages. Half-bound in morocco, lettered with title in gilt on spine.
Dimensions	Size of covers height: 41cm Size of covers width: 32cm
Style	Orientalism
Marks and inscriptions	Inscribed with title and -"they ran to his shop were they saw a man murdered, and hung up."
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	A watercolour, possibly in the same hand, signed von Brocktorff, showing monks carousing, is in the BM, PD (1882-78-40). It is probably also an illustration
Subjects depicted	Murder Shops
Literary reference	The Arabian Nights
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	SD.177:4

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Record created	November 22, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O173330/alcouz--the-barbers-fourth-watercolour-von-brockdorff-charles/

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