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`Derviche Tourneur'

Print
1830-1840 (Made)
Artist/Maker

Etching coloured by hand, [with cutting from The Times, 31 January 1964, with article about whirling dervishes, on opposite page], 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

Category
Object type
Title`Derviche Tourneur' (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Etching, coloured by hand
Brief description
`Derviche Tourneur', 1830-1840, by an unknown artist. Etching, coloured by hand, mounted in an album
Physical description
Etching coloured by hand, [with cutting from The Times, 31 January 1964, with article about whirling dervishes, on opposite page], 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.
Dimensions
  • Size of covers height: 29.9cm
  • Size of covers width: 24cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed with title
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
This etching was purchased loose by Rodney Searight, and he stuck it down on a blank page in this album in the 1970s.
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Collection
Accession number
SD.356:24

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Record createdJanuary 14, 2009
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