The Royal Horse Guards crossing the Nile at Handak
Watercolour
1884 (painted)
1884 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
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Title | The Royal Horse Guards crossing the Nile at Handak (popular title) |
Materials and techniques | Pen and Indian and blue ink, and blue wash, heightened with white, on rough paper, stuck down on board |
Brief description | Watercolour, `The Royal Horse Guards crossing the Nile at Handak'. William S. Perry |
Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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Marks and inscriptions | Signed W S Perry 1st- Life Gds-, inscribed in another hand with title on the front of the mount, and on the back of the mount in a later hand "Royal Horse Guards crossing the river at Shabatul" |
Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
Historical context | For a similar representation of loading camels, see The Graphic, 21 February, 1885. SD.772-SD.798 are 27 scenes from the British Campaign in Egypt, 1882, and the Nile Expedition, 1884-5. See the ILN and The Graphic, 1882 and 1884-5 for contemporary accounts of the military incidents, and illustrations of similar scenes. Cf. sketches by Count Gleichen (SD.426:1-45) and O. Norie (SD701-702); see also Searight Archive. |
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Accession number | SD.773 |
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Record created | March 20, 2008 |
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