Smokers in a Turkish coffee house listen eagerly to news brought by a courier. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.

  • Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
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1843
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25645i
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They are listening to news of the capture of Acre in Palestine in November 1840 by Austrian, British and Ottoman troops as part of their intervention against the campaign by Muhammad Ali Pasha, the governor of Egypt, to expand his area of government into parts of the Ottoman empire. On the left a man is being shaved by a barber

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1843

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1 print : lithograph with tint plate, with white heightening ; image 32.7 x 38.5 cm

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The Turkish courier relating the news of the capture of Acre D. Wilkie Constantinople 1840

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, no. 379, no. 25

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Wellcome Collection 25645i

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