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Oude voering van de geborduurde zijden doek of sprei van de familie Van Lennep
anonymous, 1768 - c. 1900
Oude voering van de geborduurde doek of sprei van Elisabeth Clara Morier.
- Artwork typeliner
- Object numberNG-2024-14A
- Dimensionsheight 150 cm x width 150 cm
- Physical characteristicsvoering van katoenweefsel; papier met pen in zwart
Identification
Title(s)
Oude voering van de geborduurde zijden doek of sprei van de familie Van Lennep
Object type
Object number
NG-2024-14A
Description
Oude voering van de geborduurde doek of sprei van Elisabeth Clara Morier.
Inscriptions / marks
inscription: ‘Quilt worked by mrs. David van Lennep & presented to her daughter Elisabeth Clara (b. 1760) on her wedding (February 1778 at Smyrna) to Isaac Morier, British consul at Constantinople. This quilt took ten years to work.’
Creation
Creation
maker: anonymous, unknown
Dating
1768 - c. 1900
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Material and technique
Physical description
voering van katoenweefsel; papier met pen in zwart
Dimensions
height 150 cm x width 150 cm
Acquisition and rights
Credit line
Purchased with the support of the Maria Adriana Aalders Fonds/Rijksmusem Fonds, the Sara Geertruida Aalders - Huender Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Women of the Rijksmuseum Fund
Acquisition
purchase 2024-06-06
Copyright
Provenance
Elizabeth Clara Morier-van Lennep (1760-1834); Frances Horatia Morier (1815-1906); Walter Edward Grimston (1844-1932); Mary Noel Grimston (1881-1937); Miriam Gepp (1906-1996); Helen Harrison; Rachel Matcham; her sale, Gloucestershire (Dominic Winter Auctioneers), 21 July 2023, no. 621, to White Rose Fine Art; from which purchased by the museum with the support of the Maria Adriana Aalders Fonds, the Sara Geertruida Aalders-Huender Fonds, the Women of the Rijksmuseum Fund and the Rijksmuseum Fonds, 2024 (inv. no. ng-2024-14).
Documentation
Over de familie Van Lennep in Smyrna: B.J. Slot, Het Consulaatsarchief Smyrna (1685 -1811), (The Hague 1988); K. Heeringa, Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van den Levantse Handel, eerste deel 1590 - 1660, (The Hague 1910); J. G. Nanninga, Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van den Levantse Handel, derde deel 1727 - 1765 en vierde deel 1765 - 1826, (The Hague 1952, 1964, 1966); M. Hoenkamp-Mazgon, Palais de Hollande te Istanbul, Het Ambassadegebouw en zijn bewoners sinds 1612, (Amsterdam 2002); J.W. Samberg: De Hollands Gereformeerde Gemeente te Smirna, de geschiedenis eener handelskerk, (proefschrift Leiden 1928); E. Frangakis - Syrett, The Commerce of Smyrna in the eighteenth century (1700 - 1820), (Athens 1992); Friends and rivals in the East, studies in Anglo - Dutch relations in the Levant from the Seventeenth to the early Nineteenth Century, (Leiden 2000); Maurits Wagenvoort, "Smyrna en zijn Hollandsche Kolonie", Op de Hoogte jaargang 1905; F.J.E. van Lennep, "Een schilderij uit de Levant", from Late Regenten, (Haarlem 1962); The Morier Family Papers, catalogued by Katherine Thomson, Library The Balliol College, Oxford; Jan Schmidt, The Joys of Philology: Studies in Ottoman Literature, History and Orientalism (1500-1923), (Istanbul, 2002); Henry McKenzie Johnston, Ottoman and Persian Odysseys: James Morier, Creator of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and His Brothers, (London 1998).
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