A Bedouin Caravan fording the River Jordan below Lake Tiberias
Watercolour
1831 (painted)
1831 (painted)
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| Place of origin |
Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | A Bedouin Caravan fording the River Jordan below Lake Tiberias (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Water- and bodycolour, heightened with white |
| Brief description | Watercolour, A Bedouin Caravan fording the River Jordan below Lake Tiberias, 1831, by Prosper Georges Antoine Marilhat |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed P.MARILHAT. |
| 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 | Collection of Duc de Montpensier. According to Rodney Searight: - `Bt. fr. Valenti, Beauchamp Place, April 1967 £35 '. |
| Historical context | Titled Caravana Atravesando Rio and no.37 in the Carpeta Sevilla section of the Montpensier Catalogue. The town in the distance is Samakh: see Searight Archive |
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| Bibliographic reference | Searight, Rodney and Scarce, Jennifer M., A Middle Eastern journey : artists on their travels from the collection of Rodney Searight, Talbot Rice Art Centre, 1980 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | SD.621 |
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| Record created | February 28, 2008 |
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