St. Sophia - near Djulfa - Ispahan
Watercolour
1833 (painted)
1833 (painted)
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| Place of origin |
Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | St. Sophia - near Djulfa - Ispahan (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour |
| Brief description | Watercolour, 'St. Sophia - near Djulfa - Ispahan', 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 Sept 20th. 1833. and burnt by Nadir Shah Rocks bare, 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- SD.1099, SD.1101-SD.1101, SD.1103 & 1104: SD1105-1125, SD.1127-1130, SD.1132-1134, SD.1137-1138, SD.1150, SD.1153] |
| Historical context | The drawing shows the Safavid buildings at the spring on Mount Sufeh, south of Julfa. See Vigne, in Kashmir..., 1842, Vol.1, p.16. Vigne may be confusing old Julfa, [now in modern Azerbaijan and completely destroyed] where the great church of St. Sophia was, and New Julfa, near Ispahan, where the Armenian population was moved by Shah Abbas I in 1606. Vigne briefly described all of 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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| Accession number | SD.1100 |
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| Record created | April 18, 2008 |
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