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Koordish Encampment. Plain of Chalderan scene of great battle between Shah Ism[ail and Sultan Selim I]
Drawing
1836 (drawn)
1836 (drawn)
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One of ten Landscape sketches of Eastern Turkish and Iranian subjects, mounted in an album, on ten pages of white wove paper, bound in modern cloth
Object details
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| Title | Koordish Encampment. Plain of Chalderan scene of great battle between Shah Ism[ail and Sultan Selim I] (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil |
| Brief description | Drawing, `Koordish Encampment. Plain of Chalderan scene of great battle between Shah Ism[ail and Sultan Selim I]', 1836, by Frederick Christian Lewis Jnr |
| Physical description | One of ten Landscape sketches of Eastern Turkish and Iranian subjects, mounted in an album, on ten pages of white wove paper, bound in modern cloth |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed Chalderan. Inscribed F.C. Lewis and with title on separate sheet pasted on to album page beneath the drawing. |
| 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: - `Christie's c.1965.' |
| Historical context | Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty, was defeated by the Turks under Sultan Selim I (the Grim) at Chaldiran in 1514. In 1836 Lewis was invited to Tehran by Sir John McNeill, Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Shah. He travelled there via Trebizond (Trabzon), Erzurum and Tabriz with Robert Macdonald: see Macdonald, Personal Narrative of Military Travel and Adventure in Turkey and Persia, Edinburgh, 1859, pp.90-3 et passim. SD.579:2-4, 7 & 8 are dated between August and November 1836. |
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| Accession number | SD.579:10 |
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| Record created | February 25, 2008 |
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