Egyptian prayer room, 1829 – 1830

Title

Egyptian prayer room

Draughtsman

• Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer

Part Number / Total

3 / 8

Period Produced

• 19th century

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• watercolours
• graphite-clay mixture
• paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• watercolour painting
• brush drawing
• pencil drawing

Geographic Reference

• German

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• autonomous drawing
• travel study

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert unten rechts (mit der Feder in Braun): F.M. Hessemer; bezeichnet oben rechts: [arabische Schriftzeichen] / Ghiamar Mahammed / Giualli.

Captions Added Later

Unten rechts Stempel mit arabischen Schriftzeichen

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• architecture
• genre

Primary

• 31D16(+54) old man (+ kneeling)
• 41D221(TURBAN) head-gear: turban
• 12I211 prayer ~ Islam, Mohammedanism