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A Tomb in Lycia, Turkey

Watercolour
1812 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Gandy, John Peter (painter (artist))
Place of origin
Lycia (painted)

Watercolour drawing

Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Watercolour
TitleA Tomb in Lycia, Turkey (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour, over pencil, on paper
Watercolour
Watercolour Drawing
Brief description
Watercolour, Exterior of the Theatre, Myra, Lycia, Turkey, 1812 by John Peter Gandy (afterwards Deering) RA
Physical description
Watercolour drawing
Dimensions
  • Height: 23.6cm
  • Width: 45cm
from catalogue
Styles
British School
Orientalism
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed [falsely] on the back C 1051 Theatre at Myra by J.M.W. Turner. RA. from Coll: of Sir Thos. Lawrence see his initials stamped at the left corner and Kaye Dowland. 1862
  • J WHATMAN 1810 (paper watermarked)
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 Sotheby's, Oct.5th 1972 [185] £60'.
Historical context
Illustrated in Society of Dilettanti, Antiquities of Ionia, Vol.V, 1815, Pl.XII. SD.412 and 413 were made during (or after) Gandy's Dilettanti Society trip when, in Summer/Autumn 1812, he and Francis O. Bedford investigated and drew antiquities in Lycia, including Myra (Demre) and Antiphellus (Kas). Cf. in the RIBA, a large group of drawings by Gandy and Bedford from the expedition, many published by the Society of Dilettanti in The Unedited Antiquities of Attica, 1817, Antiquities of Ionia, Vol.III, 1840, and (W.R. Lethaby ed.), Antiquities of Ionia, Vol.V, 1915.
Subject depicted
Amphitheatres
Places depicted
Lycia
Myra
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
SD.413

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Record createdJanuary 22, 2008
Record URL
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