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Harems

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Images from the collections

Images about Harems

3 images from works
  • Women in a harem, smoking the hooka, brushing their hair, and playing the lute. Wood engraving by H. Linton after E. Morin.
  • A harem in Egypt: a man caressing a woman watches two women dancing. Coloured engraving by J. Chapman after V. Denon.
  • Three women in a harem at their ablutions. Watercolour painting, 18--.

Works from the collections

11 works

    • Books

    The Mughal harem / K.S. Lal.

    Lal, Kishori Saran, 1920- | Date: 1988
    • Pictures

    A captive woman in an oriental harem, reclining with a lute. Lithograph by C. Motte after L. Boulanger.

    Boulanger, Louis, 1806-1867. | Date: [1830?] | Reference: 3006312i
    • Books

    The Harēm : an account of the institution as it existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans, with a history of the Grand Seraglio from its foundation to modern times / by N. M. Penzer.

    Penzer, N. M. (Norman Mosley), 1892-1960. | Date: 1965
    • Books

    Harem : Sinnbild orientalischer Erotik / Carla Coco.

    Coco, Carla. | Date: [1997]
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    The colonial harem / Malek Alloula ; translation by Myrna Godzich and Wlad Godzich ; introduction by Barbara Harlow.

    Alloula, Malek. | Date: c1986
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