Title

Pipe Attendant, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Pipe Attendant, 1857. 'The pipe-attendant is an essential in Oriental luxury and comfort, the pipe itself being the inseparable companion of Nawab, Pasha, and Sahib. The pipe represented is of the kind denominated narghile, wherein the fumes of the weed, which is of a peculiar sort, and specially prepared, are inhaled through water'. Engraving '...copied from drawings by native artists, some on ivory, others on talc. They are in the possession of Messrs. Smith and Co., of Leadenhall-street, and are for sale. They are sixty in number, and are very curiously and elaborately painted...[They depict] a variety of characters and incidents in Indian native life...which will almost speak for themselves'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A76_421

Model release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

6,1Mb (368,8Kb) / 4,3in x 5,6in / 1280 x 1670 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male man men India Indian pipe country body bodies guy British feet foot traditional color smoking location century Britain newspapers press barefoot concept typical water pipe hookah B&W full length full-length bare feet engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black tobacco pipe nineteenth century The Print Collector Hindoostan huqqa pipe Illustrated London News nargila the body wood engraving ILN narguileh newspaper Unknown huqqa narghile narghileh nargile nargileh 19th-century nargilah