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The Rajah Starting On A Hunt 1892 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
Temples And Bathing Ghat At Benares ca. 1883-1885 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
The Old Blue-tiled Mosque Outside Of Delhi, India ca. 1885 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
Study Of A Moor In Blue ca. 1878 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
Curiously Wrought Red Sandstone Arches, Fort Agra, India ca. 1885-1895 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
Native Shop In Bombay, India (Gwalior) oil on canvas Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
Street Scene In India ca. 1884-1888 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
Interior Of A Mosque At Cordova ca. 1880 The Walters Art Museum Mount Vernon Baltimore, MD | After studying in Paris with Jean-Leon Gerome and Leon Bonnat, Weeks emerged as one of America's major painters of orientalist subjects. He was an inveterate traveler and journeyed to South America (1869), Egypt and Persia (1870), Morocco (frequently between 1872 and 1878), and India (1882-83). This work, set in the 8th-century great mosque of... | Unrated | Anonymous | |
The Taj Mahal 1883 The Walters Art Museum Mount Vernon Baltimore, MD | Weeks was the most avid traveler among the American orientalists. He did not limit his journeys to the Near East, but also visited India in 1882 and again from 1892 through 1894. After returning to his studio in France, he specialized in Indian subjects, which were based on photographs and drawings made during his travels. In this painting, he... | Unrated | Anonymous | |
Before A Mosque 1883 Private Collection Unknown, USA | A masjid is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word entered the English language most likely through French (mosquee), from Portuguese (mesquita), from Spanish (mezquita), and from Berber (tamezgida), ultimately originating in Arabic: masjid. The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration. The word "masjid" in English... | Unrated | Anonymous |
- Edwin Lord Weeks