Trebizond
Watercolour
1833 (painted)
1833 (painted)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Trebizond (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour |
| Brief description | Watercolour, `Trebizond', 1833, by Godfrey Thomas Vigne FRGS |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed on the back with title and date Feby. 15th. 1833. and numbered 5; on a separate label, inscribed similarly and signed with initials G T. V. |
| 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 ex Colln. Royal Geographical Society (via Christie's), Jan. 1974, £25' (with SD.1136 & SD.1157). |
| Historical context | The view is from the eastern gorge, with the walls on the hill to the left, and the Yeni Cuma Camii above the town to the right. See Vigne, Travels in Kashmir..., 1842, Vol.1, pp.5-7. Vigne briefly described his journey in an article in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol.9, 1839, pp.512-6: see Searight Archive; and more fully in Travels in Kashmir..., 1842, Vol.1, pp.5-21. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | SD.1086 |
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| Record created | April 15, 2008 |
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