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Temple of Kernak, 16th Feb 1869 c. 1869

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c. 1869

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A watercolour showing a view of the Egyptian temple of Karnack. Figures are shown seated or walking among the ruins, some with donkeys.
This watercolour is a copy made by the then Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra, of a work by Oswald Walter Brierly (see RCIN 920361). Brierly accompanied the Prince and Princess of Wales on their tour of the Middle East in 1869. On the evening of 16 February and again the next day the party visited the temple of Karnak, where Brierly made his vivid watercolour. Though his role was not explicitly to act as a drawing master to Alexandra, Brierly gladly helped her with her sketches and watercolours. The Prince wrote to Queen Victoria, ‘when she does not land, Alix occupies herself very much in drawing with Mrs Grey, & Mr Brierly gives hints. He really is a most kind & amiable man - very industrious in his drawings.’ Alexandra copied this view of Karnak after the return to England.
Descriptive Medium: 'Pencil and watercolour', 'pencil, watercolour'
Additional Makers: After Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (1817-94) (artist); Previously attributed to after William Leighton Leitch (1804-83) (artist)