drawing
- Museum number
- 1878,1228.124
- Description
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Opium Seller, in Assiout, Egypt; dimly lit bazaar with light coming from arched window above wall to right, opium dealer seated to left on divan, turbaned figure stands before him, others with backs turned r. 1839
Watercolour
- Production date
- 1839
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres
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Width: 188 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From this watercolour Müller produced an oil painting, signed and dated 1841, purchased by Thomas Holloway and now in the collection of Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, Egham. See Jeannie Chapel, 'Victorian Taste: The Complete catalogue of paintings at the Royal Holloway College', (1982), p.118-9, no.52.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1994 Aug-Nov, Edinburgh, Scottish NPG, Visions of the Ottoman Empire
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1878,1228.124
