Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures: Representing the Harem, 1800-1875.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Joan DelPlato. Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures: Representing the Harem, 1800-1875. Cranbury, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; dist. by Associated University Presses. 2002. Pp. 283. $85.00. ISBN 0-8386-3880-5.

Hot, languid, and vigorous portrayals of the Near East flourished in nineteenth-century European art, but only a few British painters specialized in the field. William Holman Hunt painted Biblical narratives with Eastern settings. David Roberts painted the architecture of Egypt and Palestine, and John Frederick Lewis, who lived in Cairo for ten years, exhibited ...

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