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Signed lower right: JH Kretzschmer

Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour

362 x 277 mm., 14 ¼ x 10 ¾ in.

Kretzschmer studied at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf between 1831 and 1837. In 1838 he visited Rome and in 1840-41 he travelled to Sicily, Greece and Egypt. The present work is likely to date from this trip which was partly funded by painting portraits of local dignitaries including the Ottoman sultan Abdulmecid I.