`Mount Tabor'
Watercolour
1818-1846 (Painted)
1818-1846 (Painted)
| Artist/Maker |
Watercolour in a volume entitled VIEWS. SYRIA, ARABIA, PERSIA and consisting of drawings (105) on 100 sheets, with end-papers; half-bound in crimson morocco
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | `Mount Tabor' (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour over pencil |
| Brief description | `Mount Tabor', 1818-1846. Watercolour in a volume (one of two) containing drawings by Charles Hamilton Smith |
| Physical description | Watercolour in a volume entitled VIEWS. SYRIA, ARABIA, PERSIA and consisting of drawings (105) on 100 sheets, with end-papers; half-bound in crimson morocco |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed with title and signed with initials CHS. |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Historical context | There is no record of Smith having visited the area depicted here; more likely, the drawing is a copy from a plate in a book in his huge private library. See Searight Archive. See also volumes of drawings by Smith in VAM, WID |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | SD.983:7 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2009 |
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