Sir David Wilkie's Sketches in Turkey, Syria & Egypt, 1840 & 1841
Artwork Details
- Title: Sir David Wilkie's Sketches in Turkey, Syria & Egypt, 1840 & 1841
- Lithographer: Joseph Nash (British, Buckinghamshire 1809–1878 Kensington)
- Designer: After Sir David Wilkie (British, Cults, Scotland 1785–1841 off Gibraltar)
- Dedicatee: William John Cavendish-Scott Bentinck, Marquess of Titchfield (British, 1800–1879)
- Sitter: Mehemet Ali (Egyptian, Kavála, Macedied/Greece ca. 1769–1849 Alexandria, Egypt)
- Sitter: Abdülmecid I (Turkish, Constantinople 1823–1861 Constantinople)
- Sitter: William Cornwallis Cartwright (British, Munich 1825–1915 Northamptonshire)
- Sitter: Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, 1st Baronet (British, 1802–1876 Suffolk)
- Sitter: Halaku Mirza (Iranian, active ca. 1840)
- Sitter: Sir Patrick Macchombaich Colquhoun (British, 1815–1891 London)
- Sitter: Mrs. Niven Moore (British, active ca. 1840)
- Publisher: Graves and Warmsley (London)
- Printer: Charles Joseph Hullmandel (British, London 1789–1850 London)
- Date: 1843
- Medium: Illustrations: lithographs with tint stones
- Dimensions: 21 15/16 x 15 1/4 x 1 1/8 in. (55.8 x 38.7 x 2.9cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Orme Wilson, 1963
- Object Number: 63.533.1
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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