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Tarsus

Watercolour
1837 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Schranz, Antonio or Anton (Jr) (painter (artist))
Place of origin
Turkey (painted)

Watercolour drawing


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Watercolour
TitleTarsus (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Brown and blue wash over pencil, stuck down on mount
Watercolour
Watercolour Drawing
Brief description
Watercolour, `Tarsus', 1837, by Antonio (Anton Jr. or Antoine) Schranz.
Physical description
Watercolour drawing
Dimensions
  • Height: 34.5cm
  • Width: 51.3cm
Styles
Maltese School
Orientalism
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed and dated on the back No.31 [crossed through] - Tarsus -A.S. - April 8th 1837 and 73; inscribed on the mount in another hand with title and date April 7,1837
  • J WHATMA[N] 1842 (mount watermarked)
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.932-SD.946 are all dated between December 1836 and September 1837. Most are mounted on cards bearing inscriptions in the same hand. They probably result from a journey made by the artist with an unknown patron. Customs records (Palace Archives, Valletta) reveal that he left Malta for Turkey in April 1836 and returned in December 1839. See D. Cutajar, `The Lure of the Orient The Schranzes, the Brockdorffs, Preziosi and other artists', Hyphen A journal of Melitensia and the Humanities, No.3, Vol.V, 1987.
Drawings from the same trip are in the Benaki Museum, Athens and in a private collection in Malta: see Cathedral Museum, Mdina, Malta, The Schranz Artists Landscape and Marine Painters in the Mediterranean (Active, XIX Century), 1987, pp.43, 59-63.
Places depicted
Tarsus
Turkey
Bibliographic reference
Searight, Rodney. The Middle East : watercolours and drawings by British and foreign artists and travellers, 1750-1900, from the collection of Rodney Searight, Esq. London, 1971
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
SD.937

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Record createdApril 2, 2008
Record URL
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