`A Chief Dervish'
Watercolour
1840-1850 (Painted)
1840-1850 (Painted)
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Watercolour pasted in an album, used as a scrapbook by later owner. 72 pages of stiff paper, gilt edged, containing drawings (10) copied from wood engravings after George Du Maurier, Charles Keene, and others; also containing mounted drawings (13) stuck down by Rodney Searight, showing Turkish figures and other Turkish subjects, in same hand as SD176, manner of C. de Brockdorff; also an etching of a whirling dervish stuck down by Rodney Searight opposite a cutting from The Times; and etchings (24) stuck down by Rodney Searight on 7 pages, from Frederic Shoberl, ed., The World In Miniature Persia, 3 vols., 1822. Full-bound in red morocco, embossed with gilt decorations and initials C.E.S.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | `A Chief Dervish' (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil |
| Brief description | `A Chief Dervish', 1840-50. Watercolour in the manner of C. de Brockdorff, pasted in an album. |
| Physical description | Watercolour pasted in an album, used as a scrapbook by later owner. 72 pages of stiff paper, gilt edged, containing drawings (10) copied from wood engravings after George Du Maurier, Charles Keene, and others; also containing mounted drawings (13) stuck down by Rodney Searight, showing Turkish figures and other Turkish subjects, in same hand as SD176, manner of C. de Brockdorff; also an etching of a whirling dervish stuck down by Rodney Searight opposite a cutting from The Times; and etchings (24) stuck down by Rodney Searight on 7 pages, from Frederic Shoberl, ed., The World In Miniature Persia, 3 vols., 1822. Full-bound in red morocco, embossed with gilt decorations and initials C.E.S. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed with title and Mpeyitasi (The mysterious inscription `Mpeyitasi' may be a mistranscription or mishearing of the modern Greek spelling of the Turkish `Bektashi', a kind of dervish, numerous in Ottoman times.) |
| 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 | These Turkish drawings [SD.356:11-23] were purchased loose by Rodney Searight, and he stuck them down on blank pages in this album in the 1970s. |
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| Accession number | SD.356:13 |
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| Record created | January 14, 2009 |
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