The Duke of Devonshire as an Elizabethan nobleman, c.1600
Watercolour Drawing
1842 (made)
1842 (made)
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Album of 40 watercolour drawings of cotumes worn at a ball at Buckingham Palace, 12 May 1842, mounted in a volume containing 42 pages of white wove paper, bound in red morocco gold tooled and lettered on the front cover with the artist's name.
Object details
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| Title | The Duke of Devonshire as an Elizabethan nobleman, c.1600 (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Watercolour on wove paper, bound in red morocco tooled with gold |
| Brief description | Watercolour, The Duke of Devonshire as an Elizabethan nobleman, c.1600, from an album of 40 watercolour drawings of cotumes worn at a ball at Buckingham Palace, 12 May 1842, by Coke Smyth, British School, c.1842 |
| Physical description | Album of 40 watercolour drawings of cotumes worn at a ball at Buckingham Palace, 12 May 1842, mounted in a volume containing 42 pages of white wove paper, bound in red morocco gold tooled and lettered on the front cover with the artist's name. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Credit line | Purchased, 1940 |
| Object history | Purchased, 1940. The sketches were taken by Coke Smyth after a masked ball given by Queen Victoria on 12 May 1842, at the request of the Queen. |
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| Accession number | E.1066-1940 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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