Mrs Moore, wife of the British consul in Beirut, in Arabic dress. Coloured lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1841.

  • Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
Date:
1843
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730167i
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The consul was Niven Moore (1795-1889)--The times, 19 February 1889. Neither his obituary in The times (loc. cit.) nor that of his son (The times, 8 May 1903) mentions Mrs Moore. In this portrait she wears an oriental headdress and robes, and holds a fan of feathers

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1843

Physical description

1 print : lithograph with tint plate, with watercolour ; sheet 42.5 x 32.2 cm

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Mrs Moore wife of the British consul at Beyrout in an Arab dress D. Wilkie 1841

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, no. 379, no. 13

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Wellcome Collection 730167i

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