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A Series Of Sketches In The Black Sea

Print
ca. 1853 (made)
Artist/Maker
Dickinson Brothers (publishers)
Captain Hyde Parker (artist)
Place of origin
London (published)

Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone, with additional colouring by hand, depicting a view in the Black Sea. Plates (13) on 11 sheets, in publisher's wrappers for Part II. Each plate lettered with title and variously 'Captn. W.H.Parker, Delt.' Each sheet lettered variously 'Lithographed & Published by Dickinson Bros. 114 New Bond Street'.

Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
Titles
  • A Series Of Sketches In The Black Sea (series title)
  • Peasant. Cavalry Soldier, (in Great Coat.) Bashi Bazouk. Turkish Woman. Georgian Mountaineer. Pipe Maker. Albanian. Armenian Papa. (Priest) Infantry Soldier. Sweetmeat Vendor. Dervish. Goatherd. (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone, with additional colouring by hand
Paper
Lithography
Hand-Colouring
Brief description
Print depicting a variety of Turkish people, after a drawing by Captain W. H. Parker from a volume of plates (13) entitled 'A Series Of Sketches In The Black Sea', lithographed and published by the Dickinson Bros. Great Britain, ca. 1853.
Physical description
Lithograph, tinted with one tint stone, with additional colouring by hand, depicting a view in the Black Sea. Plates (13) on 11 sheets, in publisher's wrappers for Part II. Each plate lettered with title and variously 'Captn. W.H.Parker, Delt.' Each sheet lettered variously 'Lithographed & Published by Dickinson Bros. 114 New Bond Street'.
Dimensions
  • Size of covers height: 38 cm
  • Width: 54.6 cm
Dimensions taken from departmental notes
Marks and inscriptions
  • Captn. W.H.Parker, Delt. (Lettered)
  • Lithographed & Published by Dickinson Bros. 114 New Bond Street (Lettered)
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A
Subjects depicted
Sketches
Portraits
Travel
Place depicted
Black Sea
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
SP.446:10

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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