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E. W. Lane MSS 8.02
Title
Four Egyptian women in house
Date(s)
- c. 1825-1876 (Creation)
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1 watercolour
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(1801-1876)
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A scene with four women inside a room within a dwelling or perhaps a coffee shop(?), probably in Cairo or elsewhere in Egypt.
The woman on the left wears a white and red striped garment and white turban with her back to the artist and holds a small teacup in her right hand, offering it to one of the other women.
Background right, a woman wearing a blue, red and red checked jilbab with a black veil over a blue garment, greeted at the door by a servant girl wearing a blue garment and head covering with her back to the artist
Foreground right, a woman wearing a green garment and white scarf is seated on a red floor cushion
- watercolour
- mounted
- 17.7 x 10.1 cm
- no annotations
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
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- Foxing has caused discolouration around edges of the mount
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- Preliminary pencil sketch of this scene, see Lane MSS 3.6.45.
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Lane_8_02.jpg
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