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Robert Smirke, 1752–1845, British, Scenes from an Eastern Romance [Arabian Nights], undated
- Title:
Scenes from an Eastern Romance [Arabian Nights]
- Additional Title(s):
Illustration for an Eastern Romance, possibly 'The Arabian Nights' (with reclining male figure, small boy and angel)
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Oil and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper mounted to medium, moderately textured, gray wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 4 1/8 × 3 inches (10.5 × 7.6 cm), Mount: 6 3/4 × 5 1/4 inches (17.1 × 13.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on back in upper center: "5824 Smirke"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.584
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- angel | literary theme | prayer | turban
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:19852
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" Pearls to Pyramids " - Britain and the " Orient " 1600-1820 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830 [wall labels], Yale Center for British Art, 2008, p. 33, V 2576 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, p. 16, V1880 [ORBIS]
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