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Add MS 5255

Record Id:

032-003881916

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003881916

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100121651973.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 5255

Title:

Costume album with Persian and Turkish Officers of State with their wives and other women

Scope & Content:

109 drawings, the vast majority watercolours depicting costumes of mostly Persian and Turkish officers of state. Some of the drawings bear the name of the depicted figure handwritten in pen in Italian. There are red-bordered strip labels pasted below most of the drawings, handwritten in English. All drawings are executed on paper and pasted onto the folios of the album. In the case of items 1-14, the human figure has been cut out, pasted on a rectangular sheet of paper, which in turn is pasted on the folio of the album. Different from the rest of the drawings in the album are:

91. Ink and grey wash drawing of a man with a turban in profile.

94. Watercolour of a Turkish woman with inscription in English by Edward Browne; similar drawings of figures in traditional costumes with Browne's notes are in Add MS 5234.

97. Pencil drawing of a seated man wearing a turban.

For other albums from Sloane's collection with a similar use of red-bordered labels describing the drawings, see Add MS 5234, Add MS 5253 and Add MS 5256.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Sloane Collection

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003881916

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003881916

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume (109 drawings)

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Italian

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1799

Date Range:

17th century - 18th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 355 x 240 mm.

Material: paper.

Medium: watercolour, gouache, ink, pencil, gold.

Foliation: 109 numbered items. 106 unnumbered folios.

Custodial History:

The manuscripts of Sir Hans Sloane were purchased at his death from his executors by the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum in 1753.

Former External References:

7512
XXXIX.B (crossed out)

Source of Acquisition:

The Sloane Manuscripts were held by the British Museum Department of Manuscripts until 1973 after which they were transferred to the British Library.

Finding Aids:

Part of this description has been transcribed from the handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts, vol. 21 (1832), located in the Manuscripts Reading Room, where the volume is described as: 'Colored drawings of Persian and Turkish Officers of State and Costumes. Names are added in Italian and English, executed by a very inferior artist to the last (109 figures.) folio.'

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Sloane, Hans, Baronet, physician and collector, 1660-1753,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123196729,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/77959