Antique Print-KING OF PALMYRA-FEAST-ENTERTAINMENT-A. Rivas-1899

(‘Festivities at the court of the King of Palmyra’). Arabian entertainment, showing a woman lying on her back on a pile of furs. She holds aloft a hood for a lion to jump through. Several other wild animals are held on the right, while the spectators and musicians are on the left, where also a nobleman is lounging while smoking a water pipe.

Made by an anonymous engraver after A. Rivas.

Medium: Handcoloured wood engraving. on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 40.7 x 28.5 cm (16.02 x 11.22 inch). Image size: 37 x 23 cm. (14.57 x 9.06 inch).

Condition: excellent, given age. Excellent, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

KING OF PALMYRA-FEAST-ENTERTAINMENT | DPO-PCO-1-42

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Exact source unknown, to be determined. Published ca. 1899 (estimate).

Biography engraver: Engraved after A. Rivas. Antonio Rivas (1845-1911) was a Spanish painter of mainly Oriental subjects.