Title

The Turkish Exhibition and Museum, Hyde-Park-Corner - a Turkish Dinner Party, 1854. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

The Turkish Exhibition and Museum, Hyde-Park-Corner - a Turkish Dinner Party, 1854. Tableau of waxworks representing 'a choice party of "regular Turks" squatting at the dinner-table [displayed by] '...Messrs. Oscanyan and Aznavour, the enterprising managers...of an Oriental Museum - being a collection of Turkish costumes, armour, figures, &c., illustrative both of the political institutions and social habits of the Osmanli nation...The apartment in which it is held is the St. George's Gallery [in London]...The spectator, however, will be even still more struck with the admirable character thrown into the countenances and figures; every one of which appears to be a distinct and individual study. Their execution, in wax, by Mr. James Boggi...is entitled to the highest praise'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM22B07_361

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

26,2Mb (1,7Mb) / 13,1in x 7,8in / 3924 x 2337 (300dpi)

Keywords

travel food drink people male man men ORIENTAL exotic Middle East country guy coffee Turkey tables British museum headdress eating Middle Eastern table party turban turbans Turkish dinner location century Britain dinner party newspapers press furniture concept dining table dinner table exhibition wax B&W tourist attraction headgear head-dress head dress dining room table tableau 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century waxworks tourism The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN waxwork ILN newspaper engraving Unknown Christopher wax figure 19th-century James Boggi Boggi James Christopher Oscanyan Oscanyan Servope Aznavour Aznavour Servope