Portrait of Muhammad Ali
Watercolour
ca. 1840 (painted)
ca. 1840 (painted)
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Watercolour drawing
Object details
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| Title | Portrait of Muhammad Ali (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil, heightened with white |
| Brief description | Watercolour, Portrait of Muhammad Ali, about 1840. Artist unknown |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed on mount, in Arabic, with name of sitter, and on label on back of mount Son altesse Mehemet-Ali, vice-roi d'Egypte, etc., etc. |
| 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. fr. W. T. Spencer, Aug. 1967, £3' |
| Historical context | Formerly tentatively attributed to Frédéric Goupil-Fesquet: see Searight Archive. In the BM, P&D, is a lithograph by H. Borremns et Cie. of the same image. See also J. Bonomi, SD.120, p.18, and J. Madox, SD.615. |
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| Accession number | SD.1292 |
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| Record created | May 12, 2008 |
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