The Captive, from "Illustrated London News"

Engraver H. Harrison British
 After an intermediary drawing by Henry Anelay British
 After a painting by William Fisher Irish

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Harrison's wood engraving reproduces a work that the Irish painter Fisher exhibited at the British Institution, London in 1848 (no.312) and shows a young white woman in harem dress seated despondently on a divan in a Turkish interior. A dark skinned female, nude to the waist, kneels and offers her refreshment. Unlike exoticized renderings of harems by artists such as Ingres, this image suggests the sad reality experienced by young women captured by the Turks and forced into sexual slavery.

The Captive, from "Illustrated London News", H. Harrison (British, active 1848), Wood engraving

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