id: 153393 accession number: 1986.78 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.78 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:31.597000 Study for Mehmet Ali Pasha, c. 1844. John Frederick Lewis (British, 1805–1876). Watercolor, gouache, black chalk, and graphite; sheet: 36.2 x 24.6 cm (14 1/4 x 9 11/16 in.); secondary support: 44.3 x 33 cm (17 7/16 x 13 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1986.78 title: Study for Mehmet Ali Pasha title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1844 creation date earliest: 1839 creation date latest: 1849 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: watercolor, gouache, black chalk, and graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - British type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * John Frederick Lewis (British, 1805–1876) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 36.2 x 24.6 cm (14 1/4 x 9 11/16 in.); Secondary Support: 44.3 x 33 cm (17 7/16 x 13 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review for 1986 opening date: 1987-02-04T05:00:00 Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987). title: The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art opening date: 1990-05-01T04:00:00 The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-July 22, 1990). title: British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2013-02-10T00:00:00 British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (sale, Bill Thomson, London, May/June 1986, no. 37) date: 1986 footnotes: citations: (Henry Strachey, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH) date: 1986 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH date: 1986- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Lord Elphinstone, governor of Madras, described this drawing in an 1845 letter as "the best, and in fact, the only good likeness [of Mehmet Ali Pasha] I have seen, and I saw it within a quarter of an hour of leaving the original." digital description: This drawing was a study for a larger watercolor (now at the Victoria and Albert Museum) of Mehmet Ali Pasha, considered by many as the "Father of Modern Egypt." While European travel to the Middle East burgeoned during the mid 19th century, John Frederick Lewis was more intrepid than most, living and painting in Cairo for a decade. Upon his return to England in 1851, he astonished London audiences with more than 600 watercolors that conjured an exotic world of sumptuous colors and textures articulated in painstaking detail. wall description: This drawing was a study for a larger watercolor (now at the Victoria and Albert Museum) of Mehmet Ali Pasha, considered by many as the "Father of Modern Egypt." While European travel to the Middle East burgeoned during the mid 19th century, Lewis was more intrepid than most, living and painting in Cairo for a decade. Upon his return to England in 1851, he astonished London audiences with more than 600 watercolors that conjured an exotic world of sumptuous colors and textures articulated in painstaking detail. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1986." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 2 (1987): 38-79. page number: Mentioned: p. 72, no. 159 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159974 Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. page number: Mentioned: pp. 86-87, 146, no. 28; Reproduced: p. 87 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.78/1986.78_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.78/1986.78_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.78/1986.78_full.tif