Turk Gallery

Cartoon, The New Dance Mistress, WW1

Cartoon, The New Dance Mistress, showing an Austro-Hungarian or German officer in eastern costume introducing a plump German woman, Fraulein Gans (Miss Goose), to a plump Turkish man sitting on cushions. She would be happy to teach the goose step to the women in his harem. A comment on Turkey joining the Central Powers in the early stages of the war. Date: 1915

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A meeting at a masquerade ball

A meeting at a ball: A masked woman and Normandy girl flirt with a revolutionary man in bicorn and cockade, while a woman in drag as a Turkish man interrupts and a double bass player looks on. I know you, but you'd don't know me, in other words I have many ways to put you on the spot, to play with you, and have fun at your expense, while you cannot take revenge, or see my faults or weaknesses. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. A meeting at a ball: A masked woman and Normandy girl flirt with a revolutionary man in bicorn and cockade, while a woman in drag as a Turkish man interrupts and a double bass player looks on. I know you, but you'd don't know me, in other words I have many ways to put you on the spot, to play with you, and have fun at your expense, while you cannot take revenge, or see my faults or weaknesses. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. Date:

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Adolphe Nourrit in Tarare, 1823

French tenor Adolphe Nourrit as the soldier Tarare in the opera Tarare by Antonio Salieri, Academie Royale de Musique, 1823. Handcoloured lithograph by F. Noel after an illustration by Alexandre-Marie Colin from Portraits d'Acteurs et d'Actrices dans different roles, F. Noel, Paris, 1825. Date:

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