Dervish chief

Original wash drawing, initialed and dated 'R.C.W. 96'; mounted dervish chief with spear. In pencil '26th July 1896' and 'Lyegrove' Original wash drawing, initialed and dated 'R.C.W. 96'; mounted dervish chief with spear. In pencil '26th July 1896' and 'Lyegrove' Published in The Regiment, Aug. 13, 1898, page 313 as "Dervish Leader, Upper Nile". This drawing and a companion piece entitled 'Egyptian Cavallerie' were gifts of the artist to Mrs. C. Jacoby, wife of Charles Theodore Jacoby of Lyegrove House, Gloucestershire on July 26th, 1896. Upright folio, matted; margins; clean N.Y., Rockman Prints, 1953.

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Original record: Dervish chief
Collection: Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Date(s): 1896
Usage: Collection is open for research.
Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States
Creator(s): Woodville, Richard Caton, 1856-1926 (artist)
Subject(s): Africans in art
Dervishes
Drawings (Visual Works)
N.Y., Rockman Prints
Soldiers
Sudan
Sudanese

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