A man wearing a turban turns to look over his shoulder, jealously guarding a young woman. Etching by R. Blyth, 1782, after J.H. Mortimer.

  • Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779.
Date:
Novr. 1782
Reference:
3063641i
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Description

Presumably representing a Turk of the Ottoman Empire, renowned in Europe at the time for (among other things) fierceness

Publication/Creation

London (No. 105 New Bond Street) : published as the Act directs ... by R. Blyth, Novr. 1782.

Physical description

1 print : etching, in circle on rectangular plate ; image diameter 29.3 cm, platemark 35 x 33 cm

Lettering

To Sir William Forbes Bar.t this plate is gratefully inscribed, by his much oblig'd and most obedient servant, R. Blyth. From an original drawing of Mortimer, in the collection of Richard Payne Knight Esq.r. Drawn by Mortimer. Etch'd by R. Blyth.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3063641i

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