Stretches of the River Euphrates: looking South in the afternoon
Dorothy Susie 'Dora' Collingwood (1886 - 1964)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1932 - 1933
Materials
Oil on paperboard
Measurements
241 x 292 mm (9 1/2 x 11 1/2 in)
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Clouds Hill, Dorset
NT 628456
Summary
Oil painting on paperboard, Stretches of the River Euphrates: looking South in the afternoon by Dora Collingwood (1886 - 1964), circa 1932.
Full description
Oil painting on paperboard, Stretches of the River Euphrates: looking south in the afternoon by Dora Collingwood (1886 - 1964) T. E. Lawrence wrote in letter to Altounyan, 5.1.1933: 'They delighted me: and for the moment I felt suddenly homesick for the Kalaat again. The southward looking one is exactly as I have always remembered it.... These two little panels exactly fit a place in my downstairs room. So there they are. For good. Please thank her very much indeed. I'm rich in them.'
Provenance
Given by the artist's husband, Ernest Haig Riddell Altounyan to T.E. Lawrence, as a present, probably for Christmas for Clouds Hill, 1932 (letter of thanks January 1933); given to the National Trust with the house by Mr A. W. Lawrence, as a memorial to his brother, in 1937
Credit line
Clouds Hill, The T. E. Lawrence Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Dorothy Susie 'Dora' Collingwood (1886 - 1964), artist