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Museum number: 1872,0608.529
Description: Coffee Shop, Jaffa; a court with one-storied open shops left and groups of Turks sitting in them drinking coffee and smoking, three figures in the right foreground Watercolour and bodycolour, over graphite, on buff paper Verso: Sketches for a similar subject; six Turks seated smoking, one standing and talking among them. 1839 Graphite, with brown wash
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Production date: 1796-1864
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Dimensions: Height: 198 millimetres; Width: 268 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (2); Greenwood, de Guise 2019 / Inspired by the East: how the Islamic world influenced Western art (Fig.79, pp.194-95)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1994 Aug-Nov, Edinburgh, Scottish NPG , Visions of the Ottoman Empire, (no cat.) 2006 April-Sep, BM, Addis Gallery, 'Sense of Place' 2022, 22 June -18 Sept, London, British Museum, G43a, Life in a Cup
Subjects: coffee-house; turk; smoking
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Jaffa
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1872
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1872,0608.529

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