Sketches of boats and jewellery
1891
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1891
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Sketches of boats and jewellery is a 1891 watercolor by H. E. Howard, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This page holds five small watercolor sketches. One shows a desert camp with a tent and people sitting near a low wall. Another draws boats and simple jewelry designs. A third sketch maps pyramid corners with red lines. One depicts a building with arched doors, and the last shows a covered structure with steps. The notes hint these were made while traveling in Egypt. The sketches of boats and jewelry look like quick studies, almost like doodles. The pyramid sketch shows how builders used angles to align stones. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more of these sketches in person.
Five sketches by H. E. Howard from 1891—showing boats and pieces of jewellery—are mounted together on a single card. The album containing these drawings was sold at Christie’s on 11 February 1969 as part of lots SD.509–SD.513.
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British artist H.E. Howard filled pocket sketchbooks with quick watercolours of Suez docks and stagecraft in the 1890s. Look at “Labourers carrying coal up a gangway to a ship at Port Said”, a gritty slice of Port Said…
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