Watercolour and gouache on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-david-wilkie-600" aria-label="More by Sir David Wilkie" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir David Wilkie</a>
Mrs Elizabeth Young in Eastern Costume
Bequeathed by Mrs Elizabeth Young 1900
actions: postures and motions
adults
dress: fantasy/fancy
exotic
individuals: female
named individuals
people
portraits
sitting
society
woman
Young, Elizabeth
<p>Wilkie was one of the first artists to travel to Jerusalem after the establishment of the British Consulate there in 1839. Already a celebrated painter, he travelled to the Near East to make studies for a future project of biblical subjects. This was never realised as he died on the journey home.This watercolour was painted in Jerusalem. Fair-skinned women dressed in Near Eastern costume often in a harem setting, are a recurring image in ‘Orientalist’ paintings. Such works underline western perceptions of eastern culture as sensuous and exotic. Many fashionable European ladies posed for similar portraits.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2007</em></p>
paper unique watercolour gouache
10 December 2001 – 27 April 2003
2003-04-27
10 December 2001 – 27 April 2003
2003-04-27
2001-12-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-12-10
British Artists and the Near East
Collection based display
12 May 2006 – 21 May 2007
2007-05-21
12 May 2007
2007-05-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-05-12
Orientalism
Collection based display
4 February 2008 – 31 May 2009
2009-05-31
7 February 2008 – 28 April 2008
2008-04-28
2008-02-07
Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, USA)
http://ycba.yale.edu/index.asp
4 June 2008 – 31 August 2008
2008-08-31
2008-06-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
26 September 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
2008-09-26
Pera Museum (Istanbul, Turkey)
18 February 2009 – 30 April 2009
2009-04-30
2009-02-18
Sharjah Art Museum (Sharjah, UAE)
2008-02-04
The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting
Loan-out
7 February 2008 – 30 April 2009
2009-04-30
7 February 2008 – 28 April 2008
2008-04-28
2008-02-07
Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, USA)
http://ycba.yale.edu/index.asp
4 June 2008 – 31 August 2008
2008-08-31
2008-06-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
26 September 2008 – 4 January 2009
2009-01-04
2008-09-26
Pera Museum (Istanbul, Turkey)
18 February 2009 – 30 April 2009
2009-04-30
2009-02-18
Sharjah Art Museum (Sharjah, UAE)
2008-02-07
British Orientalist Painting
Exhibition
13 April 2011 – 2 August 2011
2011-08-02
13 April 2011 – 2 August 2011
2011-08-02
2011-04-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2011-04-13
Roger Fenton's Orientalist Photographs
Collection based display
Mrs Elizabeth Young in Eastern Costume
support: 495 × 337 mm
Bequeathed by Mrs Elizabeth Young 1900
<p>Wilkie was one of the first artists to travel to Jerusalem after the establishment of the British Consulate there in 1839. Already a celebrated painter, he travelled to the Near East to make studies for a future project of biblical subjects. This was never realised as he died on the journey home.This watercolour was painted in Jerusalem. Fair-skinned women dressed in Near Eastern costume often in a harem setting, are a recurring image in ‘Orientalist’ paintings. Such works underline western perceptions of eastern culture as sensuous and exotic. Many fashionable European ladies posed for similar portraits.</p>

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actions: postures and motions adults dress: fantasy/fancy exotic individuals: female named individuals people portraits sitting society woman Young, Elizabeth