Album
Album
ca. 1830-1835 (painted)
ca. 1830-1835 (painted)
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Album containing 54 sketches of Turkish figures and objects, 41 sketches in the manner of C. Brocktorff, 13 in other hands. Mounted on variously coloured paper in a volume of 116 pages, half-bound in morocco; lettered in gilt on spine Scrapbook.
Object details
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Title | Album (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Drawings on paper bound in album |
Brief description | Album containing 54 sketches of Turkish figures and objects, 41 sketches in the manner of C. Brocktorff, 13 in other hands, about 1830-1835. Formerly attributed to Charles Frederick von Brockdorff |
Physical description | Album containing 54 sketches of Turkish figures and objects, 41 sketches in the manner of C. Brocktorff, 13 in other hands. Mounted on variously coloured paper in a volume of 116 pages, half-bound in morocco; lettered in gilt on spine Scrapbook. |
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Marks and inscriptions | Most sketches inscribed with titles, some with additional captions in transliterated colloquial Turkish, in another hand |
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 | Rodney Searight Collection |
Historical context | See an anonymous album in the VAM, DPD, 9284A.1-70, which may contain drawings by the same artists as in SD.176:1-54, many images being the same or very close. The titles in the VAM's album are in French and in Turkish (in Arabic script). See also an album by Lt. Col. Charles Hamilton Smith, VAM, DPD, D.375-1890 (93.B.10), which contains versions or copies of some figures. See also SD.356. |
Production | Formerly attributed to Charles Frederick Brockdorff |
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Accession number | SD.176 |
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Record created | December 11, 2007 |
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