Plane Tree (Chenar) Shemaroon near Tehran Persia
Watercolour
1833 (painted)
1833 (painted)
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| Place of origin |
Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Plane Tree (Chenar) Shemaroon near Tehran Persia (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour |
| Brief description | Watercolour, `Plane Tree (Chenar) Shemaroon near Tehran Persia', 1833, by Godfrey Thomas Vigne FRGS |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed on the back with title (partly, twice) and Girth 64 feet (twice), date May 10th. 1833 and number / 14 /, and on a separate label similarly |
| 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: - `acquired from Henry D'Olier Vigne, great-nephew of the artist, May 1971, £200'. [with SD.1087-1091, SD.1093-1101, SD.1103 & 1104: SD1105-1125, SD.1127-1130, SD.1132-1134, SD.1137-1138, SD.1150, SD.1153] |
| Historical context | Shemiran, the northern district of Tehran, was the base of several foreign legations, including the British Summer Embassy. See Vigne, Travels in Kashmir..., 1842, Vol.1, p.14. 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.1092 |
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| Record created | April 16, 2008 |
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