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Robert Cruikshank
1789-1856
Persian Customs! or, Eunuchs performing the office of lady's maids! : dedicated to the Circassian Beauty / (Yedis [i.e. Sidebotham] invt).
London : Pubd by Sidebethem [sic] No287 Strand, 1819
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.477
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London : Pubd by Sidebethem [sic] No.287 Strand, 1819.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Etching by I.R. Cruikshank.
Refers to the much publicized arrival in England of the Persian ambassador in the company of his wife, popularly referred to as "The Circassian Beauty."
Summary:
Print shows the Circassian reclining on a sofa at the foot of a large curtained bed. One burlesqued eunuch pulls off a stocking, another adjusts her head-draperies; beside the former 'Precious Stones' are spread on the ground. They make coarse remarks, written in reversed characters.
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