Name of Object:

Watercolour by Claude R. Conder

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Holding Institution:

The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF)

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Date of Object:

1870’s

Inventory Number:

PEF-PI-136

Provenance:

Levant

Description:

Watercolour by Claude R. Conder, made during the Survey of Western Palestine, showing one of the members of the SWP at work with one of the expedition’s theodolites. The technology they used was the latest cutting edge equipment and techniques available to the Royal Engineers, far in advance on what was being used, for example, by the US Army Corps of Engineers of the day, as was demonstrated when Lieut. Steever, of the Corps of Engineers carried out a similar survey in Transjordan.

Citation of this web page:

"Watercolour by Claude R. Conder" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;uk;81;en

MWNF Working Number: UK 081