Graphite and watercolour on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/william-james-muller-391" aria-label="More by William James Müller" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">William James Müller</a>
Camels a in Smyrna
Presented by Lady Weston as part of the Sir Joseph Weston Gift 1908
animals: mammals
camel
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
Izmir
places
Turkey
<p>During his short career, Müller was an active landscape and genre painter. Although he failed to find recognition for his work in oils, he was celebrated for his rapid and fluent watercolour sketches.Müller travelled to the Near East in pursuit of fresh and exotic subject matter. He went to south-west Turkey in 1843–4, where he made drawings of local life, as well as landscapes and ancient monuments. This study of camels resting was a scene he observed in Smyrna (now Izmir) on the Aegean sea.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2007</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
10 December 2001 – 27 April 2003
2003-04-27
10 December 2001 – 27 April 2003
2003-04-27
2001-12-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-12-10
British Artists and the Near East
Collection based display
12 May 2006 – 21 May 2007
2007-05-21
12 May 2007
2007-05-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-05-12
Orientalism
Collection based display
Camels, a Study in Smyrna
support: 330 × 544 mm
Presented by Lady Weston as part of the Sir Joseph Weston Gift 1908
<p>During his short career, Müller was an active landscape and genre painter. Although he failed to find recognition for his work in oils, he was celebrated for his rapid and fluent watercolour sketches.Müller travelled to the Near East in pursuit of fresh and exotic subject matter. He went to south-west Turkey in 1843–4, where he made drawings of local life, as well as landscapes and ancient monuments. This study of camels resting was a scene he observed in Smyrna (now Izmir) on the Aegean sea.</p>

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animals: mammals camel cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Izmir places Turkey