Portrait of Mustapha, a Muslim from Batum
Watercolour
1852 (Painted)
1852 (Painted)
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| Place of origin |
Batum (modern Batumi) is a city on the south-east coast of the Black Sea, now just over the border from Turkey in the Republic of Georgia. In Preziosi's time the inhabitants of this section of coast were known as the Laz people (hence the Ottoman name of the place, Lazistan.)
Object details
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| Title | Portrait of Mustapha, a Muslim from Batum |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil and watercolour touched with white |
| Brief description | Portrait of Mustapha, a Muslim from Batum, 1852. Aloysius Rosarius Amadeus Raymondus Andreas, known as Amadeo, 5th Count Preziosi |
| Physical description | Watercolour of a man with a ginger beard, wearing a tasselled jacket and a pearl-buttoned shirt |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | Mustafa Musulmano di Batum (Lasistan) 18 Giugno 1852
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| 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. |
| Place depicted | |
| Summary | Batum (modern Batumi) is a city on the south-east coast of the Black Sea, now just over the border from Turkey in the Republic of Georgia. In Preziosi's time the inhabitants of this section of coast were known as the Laz people (hence the Ottoman name of the place, Lazistan.) |
| Bibliographic reference | Llewellyn, Briony and Newton, Charles. The People and Places of Constantinople : watercolours by Amadeo Count Preziosi 1816-1882. London, Victori & Albert Museum, 1985
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | D.24-1900 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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