Three women in a harem at their ablutions. Watercolour painting, 18--.

Date:
[between 1800 and 1899]
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35000i
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Three women in a harem at their ablutions. Watercolour painting, 18--. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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They stand by a marble basin: similar basins are mentioned in accounts given by Penzer, loc. cit. An African woman and an African boy assist them. In the right background are two clothed women wearing turbans. Ottoman-style arches and window grills are visible beyond. Two coloured boxes of toiletries are shown

Publication/Creation

[between 1800 and 1899]

Physical description

1 painting : watercolour ; image 33 x 25.4 cm

References note

N.M. Penzer, The harēm: an account of the institution as it existed in the palace of the Turkish sultans, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1937], chapter X, 'The baths', pp. 203-232

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Wellcome Collection 35000i

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