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Aladdin (King of Jerusalem in Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata) (1893)

Marius Alexander Jacques Bauer

drypoint

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Aladdin (King of Jerusalem in Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata) (1893)

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Print

Physical Object Description:

Prisoner in rich oriental costume tied up with rope held by horseman in armour, surrounded by spectators and group of children at left; horse-soldiers following them through narrow archway and Moorish architecture in the background; later state. 1893 Drypoint. Lettered within image: "MBauer" and inscribed in pencil in lower margin margin: "MB". Numbered and annotated with title and catalogue number

Technique:

Drypoint

Dimensions:

13.8 x 16.8 cm

Accession Number:

1926,0313.140

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1926

Ownership history:

Purchased by Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) for the Contemporary Art Society, with the Prints and Drawings Fund, 1919-1926; presented to the Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1926

Subject:

Prison

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