Figures in Oriental Costumes
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Tracing paper, ink and watercolour paint
Measurements
90 mm (H)91 mm (H)134 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872612
Summary
Ink and watercolour on tracing paper, Figures in Oriental Costumes by Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908). On the left side (figure drawing); four persons in oriental costumes, frontal [?] a woman wearing a blue coat, wide trousers and a red scarf, carrying a vase on her head; right to her and a little before her; a man in a richly decorated, red coat, with wide trousers and a turban, seen from his back; further right, almost in the centre of the picture an older man in wide brownish coat and a red turban, sitting on two big objects that occupy the left third of the space and seem to be packed customs ware, reading a map and holding a long stick; behind him, looking onto the map; a third man with long black hair in a blue coat with a red cap.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1962 and given to NT as part of the endowment by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley
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Makers and roles
Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), artist