A Fakeer at the Door of a Mosque, Constantinople
1863
Artist, British, 1805 - 1876
John Frederick Lewis
Attributed to

Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor, gouache, gum arabic, and graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 33.5 × 32 cm (13 3/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
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Accession Number
2023.149.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lewis 1978, no. 586
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Myles Birket Foster, London [1825-1899]; (his sale, Christie's, London, 28 April 1894, no. 24, as The Mendicant - Interior of a Turkish House); (J & W Vokins, 14 Great Portland Street, London). (sale Sotheby's, London, 24 Feb 1960, no. 47, as The Mendicant, Cairo). (sale Sotheby's, London, 15 June 1960, no. 18, as The Mendicant, Cairo); Private Collection, Switzerland until 2022; (sale, Koller Auktionen AG, Zurich, 23 September, 2022, no. 03472); (Andrew Clayton-Payne, London)
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1864
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, 1864, no. 133
1891
Exhibition of Works by Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School, Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, no. 141 (as "The Mendicant")
Bibliography
1978
Lewis, Michael. John Frederick Lewis R.A. 1805 - 1876. London, 1978: no .586.
1982
Reitlinger, Gerard. The Economics of Taste: The Rise and Fall of Picture Prices, 1760 - 1960. New York, 1982: vol. 3, p. 239.
Inscriptions
lower left in image: J.F. Lewis ARA, 1863