Tunis. No1

Print entitled 'Tunis. No1', depicting the Tunisian No. 1 stand at the Great Exhibition of 1851, with a black tent in the centre covered with animal skins. To left and right are stalls with hats, textiles, and metal containers. In the foreground are three female visitors in western costume, and a man and boy on the left in Tunisian costume. There are other figures in the background and on the balcony above It is a plate from a published edition of Dickinson’s Great Exhibition. Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851 : from the originals painted for H.R.H. Prince Albert / by Messrs Nash, Haghe, and Roberts, R.A. Published: London : Dickinson Brothers, 1854.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2011.35
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 496 mm x 669 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
paper; pigment
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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