Alexandretta (Gulf of Iskanderoon)
Watercolour
1837 (painted)
1837 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing of a landscape; mountains in the background, boats sail on the gulf, figures on the beach on the foreground.
Object details
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| Title | Alexandretta (Gulf of Iskanderoon) (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil |
| Brief description | Watercolour, `Alexandretta (Gulf of Iskanderoon)', 1837, by Antonio (Anton Jr. or Antoine) Schranz. |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing of a landscape; mountains in the background, boats sail on the gulf, figures on the beach on the foreground. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed on the mount with title and date April 28,1837 |
| 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, [29] April 1982 [151], £120'. |
| 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. |
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| Accession number | SD.938 |
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| Record created | April 2, 2008 |
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