ISRAEL Holy Land Bazaar at Jaffa

Description: Print Specifics: Type of print: Intaglio, Steel engraving - Original antique printYear of printing: 1836 Artist - Publisher: W.H. Bartlett - Fisher, Son & Co, London, Paris Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Dimensions: 8 x 10.5 inches, (20 x 26 cm) including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNote: 1. Green border around the print is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is much sharper than the photo of the print. Original Narrative: This building is less Oriental and more Gothic in its character than the generality of bazaars; the richest sort of merchants sell carpets and clothing here; and some of the poorer sort have also their place in more humble guise : two janizaries are in front, with their long staffs of office, and haughty air and heavy weapons; a seller of water-melons, of garb and air strongly contrasted; two women in long white cloaks, that wrap their figures so closely as to allow the eyes, lips, and nose to be but dimly and sadly seen, like the features of a spectre in some vision of the night. One of the women carries a pitcher of water on her head, in the manner of the East; the other, who appears more like a lady of the land, is come to look at the wares, and perhaps to purchase. There is no gracefulness in the figure, no attraction in the countenance of the Eastern ladies, thus cloaked, and swathed, and veiled: their appearance is clumsy, and altogether a burlesque on female elegance; the hair, hands, complexion, are all shrouded; the feet are put into shoes or slippers, that to a Chinese beauty would be the size of canoes; shuffling along, the " light of the harem" leave all their light and beauty behind: the watchful and keen glance of the dark eye, that is sometimes shot through the folds of drapery, has more of a duenna than a Leila look. Were the women of the East always thus shrouded in ancient times ? Certainly not among the Hebrews, either in the patriarchal or after ages. The custom is chiefly of Mahometan observance: the Prophet found it to exist among the Arab tribes, and perhaps rendered it still more strict. Even among the Bedouins in the interior of the deserts, an exceeding caution is observed among the women, who pass from tent to tent, and across the sand of the encampment, carefully, veiled, even from their neighbors and friends. We dwelt many days in one of these camps in the wilderness; and during that time many daughters of the tribe passed to and fro before our tent, or the adjoining tents; but the shroud that covers the head, and gently keeps the fading features from the living, could not more effectually do its work than did the long white cotton veil of the Arab girls: their gait was graceful, their figure light and slender; the small foot was set off by the sandal, that only partly coffered it; but the face was impenetrably closed. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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