The Serai and Tomb of Ali Pasha, Ioanina
Drawing
1833 (drawn)
1833 (drawn)
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| Title | The Serai and Tomb of Ali Pasha, Ioanina (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil |
| Brief description | Drawing, `Serai and tomb of Ali Pasha, Ioannina,' by Lieutenant Henry Edmund Allen, RE. 1833 |
| Physical description | Drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed, dated and signed on the back The Serai and Tomb of Ali Pasha - In the castle on the Lake - Ioanina - 16.th January 1833- H.E. Allen -; colour notes Roof of house on right, red - walls disc. red grey -Roof of mosque, brown, minaret white - point copper Walls of Serai, the part on right over arch - disc. grey- next part (lower) yellow ochre, next white & yellow, next, white - On left, the walls are blue grey, & brown - dark & discoloured - Roof of Serai, red-like - Upper part, about windows, much discoloured & ruined - once[?] handsomely painted in fresco - prevailing colours now red, & white -
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| 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 | According to Rodney Searight: - `Bt fr G. Norman, April 1963 , £3' |
| Historical context | Ali Pasha (1744?-1822) `The Lion' of Ioannina, though nominally a vassal of the Ottoman Sultan, became master of Epirus, Albania and Thessaly. Eventually, the Sultan, threatened by his ambition, had him killed; his head was sent to Constantinople and his body buried in the mausoleum of his first wife Fatima outside his palace at Ioannina. In the courtyard between the serai and the tomb, the mounted game of cirid (jereed) is being played. |
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| Accession number | SD.18 |
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| Record created | June 21, 2007 |
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