Name of Object:

Djouni. The residence of Lady Hester Stanhope

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Holding Institution:

Victoria and Albert Museum

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Date of Object:

c. 1835

Author:

William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854)

Inventory Number:

SD.88

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Brown ink and wash

Dimensions:

Height: 12.1 cm, Width: 19 cm

Description:

William Henry Bartlett was a prolific topographical artist who travelled extensively in search of new and interesting subjects for his drawings. He visited North Africa and the Middle East seven times and made several other trips in Britain and Europe, as well as North America. Popular demand for travel books was high during the 1830s and 1840s and Bartlett contributed illustrations to several of them including about a dozen written by himself. His aim as he described it was 'to give lively impressions of actual sights'. Bartlett visited the celebrated Lady Hester Stanhope, a British adventurer and traveller, at her residence in Joun in the Lebanon in June or July of 1834 and produced this watercolour during his visit.

Type of Object

Painting; watercolour; drawing

Citation of this web page:

Victoria and Albert Museum "Djouni. The residence of Lady Hester Stanhope" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;uk;160;en

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MWNF Working Number: UK 160