Accession No

TEMP.00073


Description

Pastel drawing on paper drawings of a young boy in full-face by Emmeline Deane. It is inscribed in pastel 'Mohamed Ahmed / age 18 / Soudan'. Cited in the Annual Report dated January 28th 1897 as '665-668.


Place

Africa; North Africa; Sudan


Period


Source

Deane, Emmeline (Miss) [artist and donor]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

TEMP.00073; MAA: AR 1897.665


Cultural Affliation

Sudanese


Material

Paper; Pigment


Local Term


Measurements

460mm x 575mm


Events

Context (CMS Context)
University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology Annual Report, January 28th 1897, p. 4 and. 13, nos. 665-668.

Noted as as specially drawn by Miss Emmeline Deane for presentation to the Museum. They form, with the excellent likeness of a Canton woman presented by the same artist some years ago, the nucleus of a very interesting series of types' and 'Four portraits in pastel, life size, of a Soudanese and a Vate (New Hebrides) boy; head; full-face and in profile, of each subject. The artist, Miss Emmeline Deane.'
Event Date 11/3/2015
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson


Context (CMS Context)
Drawing mounted on card. Found astray in March 2011.
Event Date 11/3/2015
Author: maa


Description (CMS Description)
1 unaccessioned pastel on paper drawings of a young boy in full-face. It is inscribed in pastel 'Mohamed Ahmed / age 18 / Soudan'. Cited in the Annual Report dated January 28th 1897 as '665-668. Four portraits in pastel, life size, of a Soudanese and a Vate (New Hebrides) boy; head; full-face and in profile, of each subject. The artist, Miss Emmeline Deane.'
Event Date 11/3/2015
Author: maa


FM:267992

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