An Arab Sheikh Smoking
Achille Constant Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
paper
Measurements
460 mm (Height) x 570 mm (Width)
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 293042.5
Summary
Print: An Arab Sheikh Smoking A Folder (after Achille Constant Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes) Titled The Oriental Album by E PRISSE ESQ this print is one of nine showing an Arabian gentleman smoking a Hookah pipe which a boy servant is holding for him. The 'Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life in the Valley of the Nile', with text by James Augustus St John (1795-1887) and illustrated by Achille Constant Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879)
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
Achille Constant Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879), original artist