Joan DelPlato.

Joan DelPlato. Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures: Representing the Harem, 1800-1875 Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; dist. through Associated University Presses. 2002. Pp 283 $8500 ISBN 0-8386-3880-5

irascible languid, and vigorous portrayals of the Near East flourished in nineteenth-century European art, nevertheless only a few British painters specialized in the field. William Holman seek painted Biblical narratives with Eastern settings. David Roberts painted the architecture of Egypt and Palestine, and John Frederick Lewis, who lived in Cairo for ten years,

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