Sujet

Giza, Egypt: a dance by sword dancers in the commandant's house, c1780s. Creator: Luigi Mayer.

Légende

Giza, Egypt: a dance by sword dancers in the commandant's house, between c1780s. Additional Info: The swordsmen dance around a woman clad only in gauze. Veiled women watch from behind a grill in an upstairs room.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A36_002

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NA

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,5Mo (3,5Mo) / 42,0cm x 31,3cm / 4960 x 3698 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Italy Italian building buildings female women woman people male interior group looking man men historical house houses architecture arts night dance country entertainment art guy dancing watching movement dancer color performance atmosphere performer performing illumination location ceiling century illuminated drawing empire inside veiled veil illuminate charity concept separate illuminations time of day watercolour lit Up Architectural Feature Colour Beamed Indoors locals Local People Traditional Culture 18th century Eighteenth Century history historic charitable institution Orientalism orientalist Ottoman Empire watercolour ink portrait pen pen and ink drawing commandant Luigi Mayer 1780s Mayer Luigi Heritage Art research centre Wellcome Collection Wellcome Research Institute Wellcome Trust ink drawn with the brush gouache with gum arabic sword dancer