Artist

John E. Bowman

John E. Bowman is a Romanticism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

John E. Bowman painted sweeping views of Mediterranean fortresses in watercolour, working as the British Empire’s eyes on the Levant in the 1840s. Two sheets in the collection—*St. Jean d’Acre from the Sea* (1848) and *The Citadel of Sidon* (1848)—record the sun-struck stone of Acre and Sidon exactly as seen from the deck of a survey ship. Tap *St. Jean d’Acre from the Sea* to step inside the pale ramparts and feel the salt spray still hanging in the paper’s fibres.

Works by John E. Bowman

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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