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- Title:
Banditti of Kurdistan Assisting Georgians in Surprising and Carrying off Circassian Women
- Date:
- 1827
- Medium:
- Pen and brown ink, graphite, and brown wash, squared and numbered for transfer on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 22 1/2 × 32 5/8 inches (57.2 × 82.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: "Size of picture 7 feet 1 by 4ft 8"; in graphite and in pen and brown ink, lower right: "1827 | George Hayter Pinxt | Florence"; in pen and brown ink, lower center: "Circassian women taken as hostages for depradations committed against a party of Georgians, who are assisted in the enlevement by Banditti of Kurdistan, painted at Florence 1827 for Lord Carysfort. sold at his sale after his death and repurchased by me | 1828"; extensively numbered along edges for transfer
Signed and dated in graphite and in pen and brown ink, lower right: "George Hayter M.A.S.L. & M.A.P. Pinxit et Delt Firenze | 1827
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.7.2
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- battle | historical subject | horse (animal)
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10411
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