Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorBurton, Frederic William (Irish painter and museum director, 1816-1900)
dc.date.accessioned2010-01-07T16:13:28Z
dc.date.available2010-01-07T16:13:28Z
dc.date.created1862
dc.date.issued2000-05-19
dc.identifier.citationChristies Irish Sale, 19 May 2000en
dc.identifier.othercgjc1794
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/35506
dc.description"The Wife of Hassan Aga reflects Burton's connection with the Pre-Raphaelites ... half-length female figures were common in Rossetti's work from the 1850s on. As for the subject this has not yet been identified; but it may well derive from Lane's version of 'Arabian Nights', for which there was a vogue in Pre-Raphaelite circles at this date. Burton's study for the figure's arms, executed in pencil, black-chalk and watercolour on brown paper, is in the NGI - this from Christie's catalogue entry" "This poem is based on the life of the Mohammedan Serbs. It is noteworthy not only from its own literary merit, but from being the first of the Serbian ballads to become known to western Europe, and, above all, from the magnificent translation of it by Goethe - this from http://sacred-texts.com/neu/hbs/hbs47.htm"en
dc.format.extent539993 bytes
dc.format.mediumwatercolor (paint)en
dc.format.mediumgraphite pencilsen
dc.format.mimetypeimage/jpeg
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectHassan Agaen
dc.subject.lcshArt -- Irishen
dc.subject.lcshSerbian balladsen
dc.subject.lcshPre-Raphaelitesen
dc.subject.lcshExoticism in arten
dc.subject.lcshHistory paintingen
dc.subject.lcshWomen in arten
dc.titleThe Wife of Hassan Agaen
dc.typeImageen
dc.contributor.roleartisten
dc.coverage.cultureIrishen
dc.format.extentdimensionsformat45.8 x 31.8 cm
dc.type.workpaintingen


Files in this item

Thumbnail
Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record