Carpet Merchant's Shop Cairo
Watercolour
1873 (painted)
1873 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Carpet Merchant's Shop Cairo (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil, heightened with white |
| Brief description | Watercolour,Carpet Merchant's Shop Cairo, 1873. Harry Sutton Palmer RI RBA |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed Sutton Palmer. and dated 1873 |
| 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 R. Appleby, May 1973, £38'. |
| Historical context | In 1873-74 Sutton Palmer toured the Near East, visiting Algiers, Egypt, Palestine and Syria. In 1874 he exhibited A courtyard, Cairo (883) at the RA; later in the decade he exhibited other Egyptian subjects there and elsewhere. See Searight Archive. In 1873-74 Sutton Palmer toured the Near East, visiting Algiers, Egypt, Palestine and Syria. In 1874 he exhibited A courtyard, Cairo (883) at the RA; later in the decade he exhibited other Egyptian subjects there and elsewhere. See Searight Archive. |
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| Accession number | SD.760 |
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| Record created | March 19, 2008 |
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