Madame Guido, Lady Canning's Genoese Maid
Watercolour
1843 (Painted)
1843 (Painted)
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| Place of origin |
In a similar watercolour in the Curzon album in the British Musem, this woman is identified as Madame Guido, Lady Canning's Genoese Maidservant. Stratford Canning had returned to Constantinople as Ambassador in 1842. In 1857, during the Crimean war, he commissioned major watercolours from Preziosi, showing the British and French troops.
Object details
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| Title | Madame Guido, Lady Canning's Genoese Maid |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink and watercolour |
| Brief description | Madame Guido, Lady Canning's Genoese Maid, 1843. Aloysius Rosarius Amadeus Raymondus Andreas, known as Amadeo, 5th Count Preziosi |
| Physical description | Watercolour of a woman wearing a floral print dress and a fur-trimmed coat |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed Constantinople 1843 Signed Preziosi |
| Object history | This drawing is part of a group of 34 bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1907. [D.14-1907-D.47-1907]. |
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| Summary | In a similar watercolour in the Curzon album in the British Musem, this woman is identified as Madame Guido, Lady Canning's Genoese Maidservant. Stratford Canning had returned to Constantinople as Ambassador in 1842. In 1857, during the Crimean war, he commissioned major watercolours from Preziosi, showing the British and French troops. |
| Bibliographic reference | Briony Llewellyn & Charles Newton The People and Places of Constantinople. Watercolours by Amadeo, Count Preziosi
Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings 1985 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | D.27-1907 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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