- Title:
- The Dragoman of Mr. Moore, English Consul at Beyrout
- Date:
- 1841
- Medium:
- Graphite, black chalk and watercolor with gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, gray wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 17 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (45.1 x 29.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated in brown ink, lower right: "D Wilkie fl Beyrout Feby. 10th 1841"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B2001.2.1360
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- braiding | consul | costume | dragoman | figure study | slippers | sword | turban | uniform
- Associated Places:
- Asia | Bayrut | Beirut | Lebanon
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: As a COVID-19 precaution, the Study Room is closed until further notice. - Exhibition History:
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Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Sharjah Art Museum, 2009-02-18 - 2009-04-30)
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Pera Museum, 2008-09-26 - 2009-01-11)
Lure of the East - British Orientalist Painting (Tate Britain, 2008-06-04 - 2008-08-31)
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The lure of the East, British orientalist painting, 1830-1925 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. 16, V 1879 (YCBA)
The lure of the east : British Orientalist painting: wall labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2008, p. [21], V 2577 (YCBA) V 2577
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:46397
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Sir David Wilkie, 1785–1841, British, The Dragoman of Mr. Moore, English Consul at Beyrout, 1841
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