Cultures Crossed: John Frederick Lewis and the Art of Orientalism

by Emily M. Weeks

John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876) is one of the best-known yet least understood British Orientalist painters of the 19th century. His numerous, highly detailed Orientalist images stand in dramatic contrast to the meager written archive of the years he spent in Egypt between 1841 and 1851; art historians have long puzzled over the details of this significant period and struggled for meaningful insight into his process of artful construction. This innovative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300208162
• ISBN13: 9780300208160
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.4" x 11.3"