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Mss Eur F21/2, WD4488, WD4123-4126, WD4268, WD4313-4316

Record Id:

032-003282934

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003282934

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x003421

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Mss Eur F21/2, WD4488, WD4123-4126, WD4268, WD4313-4316

Title:

SOLVYNS, FRANS BALTHAZAR (1760-1824) Born Antwerp. In Calcutta from 1791 to 1804 mainly working on drawings and engravings for ‘A collection of two h ...

Scope & Content:

SOLVYNS, FRANS BALTHAZAR (1760-1824)

Born Antwerp. In Calcutta from 1791 to 1804 mainly working on drawings and engravings for ‘A collection of two hundred and fifty coloured etchings descriptive of the manners, costumes and dresses of the Hindoos’, Calcutta, 1799. The work was not a commercial success and a later folio edition published in Paris in 1808-12 fared no better, possibly because neither the rather crude engravings produced by Solvyns, nor the subject matter, appealed to contemporary taste. However his influence on the work of Indian artists working in Calcutta and Murshidabad in the early 19th century was extremely important.

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Mss Eur F21/2; WD4488; WD4123-4126; WD4268; WD4313-4316

Early survey work; a self-portrait of c. 1795; and a group of drawings from an album assembled by his widow.

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WD4123-4126; WD4268; WD4313-4316

Drawings from an album assembled by Solvyns’s widow, Mary Ann Greenwood, originally containing thirty-nine drawings, for presentation to an unknown French patron. Most of the drawings for the engravings are in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Purchased 1986, 1992, 1993.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003282934

Is part of:

not applicable

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003282934

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

11 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Start Date:

1787

End Date:

1804

Date Range:

1787-1804

Era:

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Material Type:

Prints, Drawings and Paintings

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Solvyns, Frans Balthazar, 1760-1824