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WD3476
- Record Id:
- 040-003281710
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003281705
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023332050.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023646460.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD3476
- Title:
- 'A Mussulman Temple, Aden' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines
- Scope & Content:
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Genre/Subject Matter:
View of a mosque or mausoleum at Aden, which may be an earlier incarnation of the Mosque of Abu Bakr al-‘Aydarus. The original building was constructed in the fifteenth century but heavily reconstructed at some point in the nineteenth century, perhaps after this sketch was made. The artist indicates the connection with al-‘Aydarus in the inscription in pencil which reads ‘Sheik Hydroos [Aydroos]’
Several figures are sketched in at the entrance to the mosque; a flagstaff appears immediately outside it. Behind the building the faint lines of a step rocky outcrop have been indicated.
The sketch is signed lower right with the initials of the artist.
Inscriptions:
Recto, in pencil, along lower edge: ‘Sheikh Hydroos’
Recto, in pen, along lower edge: ‘A Mussulman Temple – Aden. SBH.’
Verso, in pencil, along upper edge and lefthand edge: ‘WD3476’; ‘Plan of Aden No. 2’
Temporal Context:
This sketch was probably made between January 1839, when Stafford Bettesworth Haines seized Aden, and 1854, when he was recalled to Bombay to face embezzlement and fraud charges, during which time Haines administered Aden.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003281705
040-003281710 - Is part of:
- WD3472-3527 : Fifty-six drawings of landscapes, figures, animals and ships, mostly Aden, many by Stafford Bettesworth Haines (1802-60)
WD3476 : 'A Mussulman Temple, Aden' by Stafford Bettesworth Haines - Hierarchy:
- 032-003281705[0005]/040-003281710
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: WD3472-3527
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 pencil drawing on paper
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023332050.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1839
- End Date:
- 1854
- Date Range:
- 1839-54
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions:
140 x 204 mm
Materials:
Pencil on paper
Condition:
Light surface dirt coats the recto and verso, but otherwise the paper is in good condition. A large stain in the upper-left corner is of unknown origin.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)