Cannon Gate Constantinople
Drawing
1844 (drawn)
1844 (drawn)
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Drawing
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Cannon Gate Constantinople (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil |
| Brief description | Drawing, 'Cannon Gate Constantinople', 1844. Possibly by Sir George Scharf KCB FSA |
| Physical description | Drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed with title, dated 22 May 1844, inscribed Constantine killed here. and numbered No 40 and 13 |
| 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 | SD.920-SD.930 are probably from a sketchbook. Although acquired at the same time as SD.915-SD.919, SD.920-SD.930 are on different paper and are possibly in a different hand. The NPG sketchbooks include sketches of Sicily and Basel dated April and May 1844, showing that Scharf could not have been in Constantinople at that time. The possibility that the inscriptions may have been added by a collector rather than the artist may account both for the discrepancies in dates and for the similarity of some of the handwriting. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | SD.928 |
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| Record created | April 2, 2008 |
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