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A Syrian

Watercolour
about 1843 (Painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

In an album commissioned from Preziosi by Robert Curzon, now in the British Museum, a version of this watercolour is entitled `A Syrian in the Suite of an Emir.' He may well have been the Emir's secretary, as next to him is a writing box, inlaid with mother-of-pearl.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleA Syrian
Materials and techniques
Pencil and watercolour, touched with white
Brief description
A Syrian, about 1843. Aloysius Rosarius Amadeus Raymondus Andreas, known as Amadeo, 5th Count Preziosi
Physical description
A watercolour of a seated man, smoking, in Syrian dress
Dimensions
  • Sight size height: 22.9cm
  • Sight size width: 16.9cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
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].
Place depicted
Summary
In an album commissioned from Preziosi by Robert Curzon, now in the British Museum, a version of this watercolour is entitled `A Syrian in the Suite of an Emir.' He may well have been the Emir's secretary, as next to him is a writing box, inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
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.21-1907

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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