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)
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:
turban | literary theme | angel | prayer
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28)
Publications:
Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830 [wall labels], Yale Center for British Art, 2008, p. 33, V 2576 (YCBA)Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, p. 16, V1880
Gallery Label:
Smirke, one of the most prolific book illustrators of the early nineteenth century, produced illustrations for several editions of the Arabian Nights, of which these may be examples. The Arabian Nights were first translated from Arabic into French by Antoine Galland in 1704-17 and almost immediately published in translation in England, where they became enormously popular and influential. Gallery label for Pearls to pyramids: British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1820 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28)