Ancient Armenian Church at Varzahan
Watercolour
ca. 1849 (painted)
ca. 1849 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Ancient Armenian Church at Varzahan (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil, touched with white, on stiff paper, stuck down on mount |
| Brief description | Watercolour, Ancient Armenian Church at Varzahan, about 1849, by Frederick Charles Cooper |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed F.C. Cooper.; inscribed on the mount Byzantine Ch. Armenia (Varzahan is situated between Trabzon and Erzurum) |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Historical context | SD252-269 relate to Layard's second expedition to excavate the ruins of ancient Nineveh in 1849-51: see his Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh And Babylon; with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert: being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the Trustees of the British Museum, 1853. This image is, in part, reproduced on page 7; lettered with title and F.C. Cooper. Cooper's diary for January-August 1850 was in the possession of a descendant, Mrs Irene Lyon Coldstream: see photocopy in the Searight Archive. Other drawings from this expedition are in the BM, Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities. An oil, Scene from the Excavations at Nineveh, 1852, was formerly with the Mathaf Gallery, London. See also Layard, Sir Austen Henry, SD559. Layard, 1853; G. Waterfield, Layard of Nineveh, 1963; British Museum, London, Layard and his Successors: Assyrian Explorations and Discovery in the XIXth Century, 1963 (exh.cat.); J. Reade, Assyrian Sculpture, BM, 1980; Information from Frederick N. Bohrer, Irene Lyon Coldstream and Dr. Julian Reade: see Searight Archive. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Searight, Rodney. The Middle East : watercolours and drawings by British and foreign artists and travellers, 1750-1900, from the collection of Rodney Searight, Esq. London, 1971 |
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| Accession number | SD.253 |
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| Record created | December 27, 2007 |
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