Camel Corps
Watercolour
ca. 1886 (painted)
ca. 1886 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Camel Corps (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil |
| Brief description | Watercolour, `Camel Corps', about 1886, by Orlando Norie |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed O. Norie; inscribed with title on an old mount; inscribed on the back, in another hand, The Camel Corps in Egypt |
| 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 Belgravia, [8] Apl. 1975 [(25)], £80'. |
| Historical context | For a description of the formation, in 1884-5, of the Guards Camel Regiment, see Count Gleichen, With the Camel Corps up the Nile, 1888. The tentative 1886 date is based on comparison with a similar watercolour entitled Grenadier Guards: Detachment of the Guards Camel Corps, 1886 (reproduced as a Christmas card by the Grenadier Guards in 1970: see Searight Archive). See also sketches by Count Gleichen (SD.426:1-45) and W.S. Perry (SD.772-798). |
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| Accession number | SD.701 |
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| Record created | March 13, 2008 |
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