Portrait of Davut from Serbia, Mount Cer

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Artist/Maker	Preziosi, Aloysius Rosarius Amadeus Raymondus Andreas (5th Count Preziosi) (Painter)
Place of origin	Istanbul (Painted)

Mount Cer (pronounced Tser) is a mountain situated in Serbia, 100 kilometres west of Belgrade. In 1852 the principality of Serbia was still nominally under Ottoman control, and remained so until 1878. The Serbian Vojvodina to the north was already within the borders of the Austrian Empire.

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Category	Watercolours
Object type	Watercolour
Title	Portrait of Davut from Serbia, Mount Cer
Materials and techniques	Pencil and watercolour
Brief description	Portrait of Davut from Serbia, Mount Cer, 1852. Aloysius Rosarius Amadeus Raymondus Andreas, known as Amadeo, 5th Count Preziosi
Physical description	Watercolour of a man wearing a loose, striped robe, and a cap with a feather
Dimensions	Sight size height: 34.9cm Sight size width: 25.4cm
Style	Orientalism
Marks and inscriptions	Daut da Serb= montaigne di Tyari 2 Decembre 1852 Translation Davut, from Serbia, Mount Cer 2 December 1852
Object history	This is one of a group of 31 portraits, acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1900. They were once assembled in an album, but whether by Preziosi himself, or a member of his family, or subsequently, is not known.
Subject depicted	Davut
Place depicted	Istanbul
Summary	Mount Cer (pronounced Tser) is a mountain situated in Serbia, 100 kilometres west of Belgrade. In 1852 the principality of Serbia was still nominally under Ottoman control, and remained so until 1878. The Serbian Vojvodina to the north was already within the borders of the Austrian Empire.
Bibliographic reference	The People and Places of Constantinople. Watercolours by Amadeo, Count Preziosi Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings 1985
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	D.27-1900

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O893119/portrait-of-davut-from-serbia-watercolour-preziosi-aloysius-rosarius/

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