Orientalism at the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum holds 462 Orientalism works in this public-domain catalogue, dating from 1698 to 1954. The collection is led by George de Sausmarez, Amedeo Preziosi and Godfrey Thomas Vigne.
Portrait of a Chinese Mandarin
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 17)
A Chinese Dignitary Riding a Fish
Oriental Landscape with a Caravan
Arab Horse Soldiers
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 6)
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 2)
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 2)
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 6)
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 2)
The Island of Zante
Vendor of Rice and Other Grains in the Bazaar, Baroda, Guzerat
Sunset on the Nile
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 17)
An Arab Smoking a Pipe
An Oriental Interior (A Startling Account, Constantinople)
A Caravan in the Desert
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 9)
Study of Columns at Philae
Goldsmiths, Baroda, Guzerat
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 1)
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 1)
Entrance to the Crypt, Roslin Chapel
An Egyptian Baker and His Assistant at the Door of a Cake-Shop
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 6)
An Egyptian Fellahah with Her Child
A Spanish Letter-Writer
The Golden Temple, Amritsar
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 1)
Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and Three of Their Children at the Indian Pavilion of the Great Exhibition
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 2)
Don Quixote at the Inn (from Cervantes' novel)
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 2)
Interior of Milan Cathedral
Ruins of Elgin Cathedral
The Casbah and the Ravine of the Centaur, Algiers
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 16)
A Chinese Dignitary in a Boat
An Arab Improvisatore
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 2)
Chinese Street Scene at Macao
Wooded Cliff near Algiers
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 17)
Copy of Painting inside the Caves of Ajanta (cave 21)
A closed palanquin with six bearers
A Turkish couple
Aurangzeb's Mosque on the Ganges river at Benares
Ruined Tombs Calpee
Interior of Shah Hamadan's Masjid during a religious ceremony
Cotton cultivation in India
Oil painted study of an unidentified theatrical scene in Egypt
The Taj Mahal, Agra
Mahomedan wedding at night
A Muslim wedding
Persian wheel near Amritsar
A Muslim warrior and his wife
The Kaaba, Mecca.
Ruined Mosque - Dacca
The Rock at Trichinopoly (Tiruchchirappalli), with a lingam shrine and the shrines of the Devi, Ganesha and Shiva.
Opium cultivation scene, Malwa
The Ferry at Kotah
View of Pushkar Lake and the bathing ghats, near Ajmer
Hindus bathing in the early morning during a festival in Kashmir
Ruins at Kannauj, India
Ruined gateway-Dacca
Camp bazaar near Kaie, Miranzai
Untitled
An Arab couple
A street in Bombay; Ram Lals house
The Muharram procession
Untitled
Portrait of a Hindu woman wearing jewellery
Exterior of the traveller's rest house, formerly the East India Company's Factory, Tatta
The fort of Hari Purbut from the lake
Portrait of a Hindu woman
A caravan with camels resting at an oasis in the desert.
Street scene in Peshawar
Enclosure of Martand, Kashmir
Untitled
The Temple of Isis and Kiosk of Trajan on the Island of Philae
A Pasha travelling with his escort[?]
Qasr al-Ayni, Cairo
Luxor: the West Bank, with the Temple of Ramesses III at Madinat Habu; looking east towards the Nile
Fountain for Ablution in Cortile of Mosque of Mourad Bey
The Nile, near Bulak
A Turkish Porter (Hamal)
Blind Egyptian with a Madrab [Teasel]
Sphinx & Great Pyramid
Ruins of the Temple of Hermopolis
Figure of an oriental Man, full-length, smoking a hookah
Portrait of Süleyman Pasha
Sheik Abdul Kadir Mugrabi - The Magician of Egypt
J. H. Idris Effendi John Harvey in his Arab Dress
The Sinai Mountains
Whirling Dervishes in a Tekke
Hassan: A Fellah Boy of Upper Egypt
A Gipsy Encampment at Filaret outside Bucharest
Minyeh, Egypt
Cattle Egrets (Buff-backed Herons) with Egyptian Water-buffalo (Gamoose)
View of the Nile
North African man in travelling costume
Mendurah in my House in Cairo
The Sultan riding out in procession to Friday Prayers
Ithaca Grecian Islands
Street Scene in Delhi
El Mahkemeh or Court of the Cadi Cairo
Portrait, head and shoulders, facing left, of an oriental man wearing a white turban
Sultans Attendant - Body Guard
A Doorway in Cairo
The Bitter Lakes, Suez Canal
Ispahan - Cour intérieure de la grande Mosquée
An Arab with a gun, watching duck
A veiled Turkish woman
A Turkish woman, seen from the back
The Mosque of Berkouk Cairo
Arab Lad
Labourers carrying coal up a gangway to a ship at Port Said
Mosque. Souk el Hommos. Byrout
Bab al-Nasr and walls of Cairo, with part of the Mosque of Khalif al-Hakim
`View down the Nile. Pasha's Factory S.of Daroot-el Shereef. Upper Egypt'
à Minieh, Egypte
Daughter of the Dey of Algiers
Moorish woman of Algier
`Cataracts of Assouan. Midway. - Our Candjia Moored for the Night - On the Nile'
A Halt in the Desert
Rural Scene in Upper Egypt, on the banks of the Nile
Temple of Edfoo
View of Grand Cairo from the Summit of the Great Pyramid of Giza
Suq al-Nahhasin, Cairo
`Town of Severus & ruins of Trajan's Bridge - Wallachia'
Biban-el-Molook, or Tombs of the Kings. Belzoni's Tomb. Thebes
Sheykh of the Rufai Dervishes
Abu Daood, Shaikh of the Coptic Quarter, in Cairo
Two Persian Horsemen
A Shaykh with his Son[?] on Mules, with their Sais [groom]
Portrait of Trehem[?]Walid 'Abdullah, an Arab from Iraq
`Gournou & Hill of the Kings' Tombs - Thebes'
Portrait of Sultan Mahmud II enthroned
Gebel El Marga 10 miles from Thebes
Aswan; looking south up the Nile
`Stabl-Antar. Ancient Egyptian Cave near Siout. Upper Egypt'
Plane Tree (Chenar) Shemaroon near Tehran Persia
Turkish Boy with Attendant
Figure of a Man in Turkish Military Costume
A Tatar, or Government Courier
The Mosque of Omar
`Saki and Pigeon Towers - Farshoot - On the Nile'
The ViceRoy's Palace on Lake Ismailia
Interior of a Turkish Caffinet, Constantinople
Albanians, and Greek woman of Smyrna
A view of an Indian city beside a river
The walls on Monsoorat (near Tlemcen) from the Mosque
A Doorway at Philae
The Hhareem, Cairo
Figure of a Man in Arab dress, seated, holding a spear
Encampment of Guards, view from the Abdin Palace Cairo 25.Sep.82.
Cairo: Loggia in Wood
`Minieh On the Nile'
View of the Nile with boat
Excavation of the Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel
A Camel
Distant View of the Pyramids - from the Desert at Cairo,
Portrait of Mustapha, a Muslim from Batum
A Turkish Coffee-House, Constantinople
Kermanshah, Iran
Man in Arab Costume, Seated and Smoking
A Dervish[?]
A Seller of Milk-puddings [Mahallebi]
French troops at Médéa, Algeria
View from the Loggia of the Summer Reception Room (Makad) in the House of the Memluk Raduan Bey, Cairo
Great Temple. Karnac. Thebes
Castle of El Karak Trans Jordan
Sebastopol: View from the Victoria Redoubt
Mosque, possibly in North Africa
An Old Turkish Scribe
Persian Kalian Bearer
Tabriz
Rat dEgypte apellé en Arabe Gérbouh
An official in the Sultan's palace
A Turkish Mill, Chikoey, or River Village
Temple of Darius Khargeh Oasis
Palm trees at Karnak, Thebes
A Rufai dervish swallowing a red-hot skewer
Bursa, the Mosque of Emir Sultan
View on the Nile, opposite Aswan
`Gibel-el-dab'
A Turkish woman
Administering the Felek or bastinado in Persia
Greek Recruit
An old merchant in the Souk in Algiers; with figure studies
Cleopatra's Needle, Alexandria, Egypt
A Nubian Girl standing beside the First[?] Cataract of the Nile
Dayr- El Bukhur - or "of the Pulley" Coptic Convent on Gebel-e-Tayr. Upper Egypt
Scene at Luxor
Arabs of the Tribe of the Benisaid
A Moroccan Amir
The Fruit Market, Tangier
Marchand de Legumes à Alger
Camel Corps
`Sakia or Persian wheel Nubia'
Kasim Pasa, the former Ottoman Naval Arsenal, from the Golden Horn
Cheif [sic]wrestler at Kabul
Two Arabs in a Quffa
Temple at Derr, Nubia, Egypt
Algiers
The Eighth Pylon, Karnak, Thebes
View of Constantinople from the cemetery at Pera
Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right, of a young man in Oriental dress
Part of the Ruins of an Aqueduct and Reservoir at Odena in Africa about 15 miles from Tunis
Interior of a Harem
Arabians and Turkoman Horse the property of Sir J. C - - with Persians
Mosque at Bahrain of Persian origin
Mamluk with drawn sword, on horseback
An Egyptian Muleteer
Street Scene in Cairo
`Sioot - (the ancient Lycopolis.) - "Upper Egypt." from the Stabl-Antar Hill'
A Dervish - Constantinople
A Turkish official
La Pointe du serail, Constantinople
Advanced guard & Baggage of the Royal artillery landi[ng] a[t] Alexandria en route for India
Venetian boatman
Amber, Rajpootana
Une Demoiselle Grecque de Livadie
An Ottoman cleric, possibly the Nakibulesraf, or the representative at Istanbul of the Sherif of Mecca
Turkish Soldiers in Summer uniform
`Propyla of Great Temple. Luxor, Thebaid'
"Sunset" near Girgeh On the Nile'
Moorish cafe, Blida, Algeria
A Greek Priest, with Attendant
A Bedouin beside his Camel, probably in Egypt
A female member of the Sultan's family
`Our Candgia preparing to ascend a "Rapid' Assouan Cataracts On the Nile'
View of an Egyptian Temple. [Dendara]. 1807
Camels, West Thebes, Egypt
A Turkish Mosque on the Banks of the Nile
Asouan and Elephantine
Arab women with water pitchers
Portrait of Âdile Hanim, a Turkish woman from Constantinople
Mamluk on Horseback
Abyssinian Christian in Cairo. On Pilgrimage to El-Tin
Pyramids of Gizeh from Old Cairo
Marchand de Charbon Turc
A Mosque at Cairo
In Arab Quarter Algiers
Studies of Mummy cases and Mummies
Portrait of Musa, a Hoca from Kashgar
Syria. east view of Caiffe a Turkish town at the foot of Mount Carmel
Grand Cairo
`Quarries "el. Masareh." Whence the Stones for the Pyramids were dug. On the Nile'
A Reception, probably for Naval Dignitaries, in Turkey
Turkish Carpet Seller
The Corn Market, Tangier
On the Road from Smyrna to Brussa
City of Candahar
Distant View of Bushire in the Persian Gulf
Arab tents at Ledgemeeat on the Khabour
Sheik of Turkish Cavalry
The Turkish Court
`Castle of Ibreem or Premnis, Nubia. Taken from our Boat'
The Nile between Roda and Bayadeeah - almost opposite the antient Antinos. Now Shekh Abadeh
A Scene in China
The House of Radwan Bey
Cairo: Palace of the Cadi
Fortress of Tangier
Hamam, or Turkish bath
The Pyramids during the Nile Flood
Tomb of a private family of wealth - Cairo -
Jumah, Tribe el Hassee
`Luxor "On the Nile" - from the Gournou Bank'
Tombs near Cairo
Egyptological studies [6]
"On the Nile" Distant view of Cairo & Grand Mosque'
Carpet Merchant's Shop Cairo
Skirmishes between Turkish Irregular Cavalry and Cossacks
`Excavated Roman Hall in an Egyptian Temple - Luxor. Thebes'
Kairouan
J.W.P.'s Kanja moored beside the East bank of the Nile at Luxor
The Bab el Nasr. Cairo
Ancient Ruins in the land of Edom above the bed of a valley and Arab Date gardens
Güres, or a greased wrestling match in the gardens of the Sultan's Palace
Tanger
Interior of the Mosque of Sultan Hassan
Study of a Moroccan Man with a Green Wrap
The Emperor of Austria ascending the Great Pyramid
Heads of Egyptian Children, Cairo
An Oriental Woman kneeling to plead with a Man who stands at a window
Benares
The Dome of the Rock, from the Mount of Olives
Entrance to an Egyptian tomb
The Esir Hani or Avrat Pazari, the female slave market near the Nur-i Osmaniye Cami, Istanbul
Philae
Tehran with the Cusr Kayar
From Elephantine between Asouan and the 1st Cataract
A room in the house of Shayk Sadat, Cairo
Hussein Pasha
A View in Greece or Albania
Stamboul from the Cemetery of Pera. Constantinople
A Mastabah or Dikkeh
Mausoleum of Mehmet Ali and his family at Cairo
Portrait of Ibrahim, a Muslim from Sennar
A Dervish offering water to resting women
`Pyramids of Sakhara, & Dashoor. Upper Egypt'
African Women at a Fountain in a Muslim Cemetery
A Kanja on the Nile at Luxor, with the Temple of Luxor behind
A group of figures in Eastern dress, Turkey
The Bridge of Alcantara at Toledo
A Nubian selling Canes
Philae Temple, Egypt
Dragoman Mahomet
Sugarcane Seller, Cairo
A Mounted Mamluk with his Sais [Groom]
Snake Charmer with an Egyptian Cobra
Interior of a school, Cairo
A Water Carrier
Female Riding Camel
Persian Shawl-Merchant
Portrait of Isaac, a Karaite Jew from Hasköy near Constantinople
An Eastern Market.
An official of the Sultan
Leander's Tower at Constantinople
The Crater, Iraq
Head of an Egyptian Girl, probably a Bedouin
Temple at Carnak: Thebes
`Corn Mill. Esneh. (Latopolis) - On the Nile - '
A Canja on the Nile near Qasr Ibrim, Nubia, flying a White Ensign
Madrasah and Tomb of Sultan Hasan
`Temple of Denderah. Distant view from bank of River. Upper Egypt'
An Oriental, with performing monkeys
A traveller confronted by crocodiles
A Courtyard of the Sultan's Palace in Constantinople
Figure Studies, Tangier
Recruiting at Assiut
A Group of Turks
Darb al-Ahmer, Cairo, with the Mosque and Tomb of Amir Khayrbak
Church of Nestorian Christians Cochanez Kurdistan the seat of their Patriarchabout 1850
Cleopatras Needle as it now Stands on the Site of the Old Town at Alexandria in Egypt
Sidi fet allah gate. Tunis
Copt Mother and Child
Exterior of the House of the Memluk Raduan Bey, Cairo
Great Temple of Edfu, Upper Egypt
Two rowing boats full of passengers at Port Said
Mounted Arab horseman
A young woman in Turkish dress
Mosque of Sidi Said bou Othman, Meknes
Persian
Costume of a Persian Harem Lady
A Gateway in Cairo
Mosque of Sidi Bu Madyan, Tlemcen
`Esneh. "On the Nile." Thebaid'
Dervish of Bokhara with Inkhorn and Diak
Enfant Turc que lon méne à la Circoncision
Eastern Desert, Egypt
`Petrified Forest Desert near Cairo'
Ile de Philoé
Temple de Ipsamboul
The Hadji's Grave
General Sir Garnet Wolseley at Alexandria
A North Indian[?] sewing with silk
Portrait, full-length, facing right, of a Man in Arab dress, possibly smoking a cheroot
Turkish Female of Asia Minor
Christophoros Galinos. a Greek priest
The Mirab & the Minbar Gami Ibn Tooloon
The Island of Philae with the Kiosk
Turkish Woman by a Stream
The Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek
The Hall of Columns at Karnak, Thebes
Interior of a Turkish shepherd's hut
Suez from the Ruins of Colsum
Tomb of Zobeida wife of Haroon ool Rashid in distance
A Street in Tangier
The Mâristan or Mosque-Hospital of Kalaun, Cairo
Suliman Aga, the last of the old Mamelukes
The Temple of Hatshepsoo at Thebes
The Gardens of the Seraglio with European visitors inspecting the Column of the Goths, Constantinople
Tombs of the Khalifs, Cairo
A Greek Priest
Remains of Roman Walls - Hell Gate - Antioch -
Turkish Fort of Chanak-Kaleh-si (asiatic Side). View Taken from the center of the strait
Mosk of Kaed Bey Cairo -
A Jewish Nurse - Fez
Camels at a well, Tunisia
A European in Oriental dress, seated cross legged
A Nubian Concert in the Desert
Egyptian Types
`Temple of Kom-Ombos. "Thebaid" from Stern of Boat "5. knots an hour" "On the Nile"
Convent of the Rufai Dervishes
A Turkish woman
Tomb Near Old Helwan
Travellers departure from a Caravanserai
Palestinian [?] women with water pitchers
A Sultana
Shah Mansur Hashash
A Bedouin Caravan fording the River Jordan below Lake Tiberias
Baggage Camel
St. Sophia - near Djulfa - Ispahan
An Interior (the Eastern End) in the House of the Mufti Sheikh El Mahadi
Chief of Police at Tehran
Tomb near Cairo
Persian Village
Turkish Gentelman of Constantinople [sic]
A Müftü or Mufti
The Gate of the Desert
British sailors in an Egyptian Fort at Alexandria
Camp at Aveen near Tehran
Une Caravane en Repos en Kabylie
The Gardens of the Taj Mahal
View of Constantinople from Pera
Arabs and camels beside a Tomb, Algeria[?]
`Quarries of Silsilis - Thebaid'
Oriental Capriccio: Ruined Temple on the Nile
Date grove near Alexandria
Egyptian Village Scene
`The Doum Palm Dendera "On the Nile"
The Sweet Waters of Europe, Constantinople
`Ibreem - The Ancient Castle of Premnis (parva) Nubia. Frontier Cantonment of the Romans "On the Nile"
Le Gala village near Tlemcen
A Cairo Street Scene With Camels
Family of Egyptian Fellahin, at Tomb Entrance
Three Turkish ladies
Figure of a Man in Arab dress, reclining, smoking a chibouk
The Remains of a Roman Bridge near Tangiers, Morocco
The Bosphorus, from Pera, looking towards Scutari
Pyramids of Geezeh. Egypt
Dye works. Cairo
Head of an Egyptian Girl
Port of Berberah. Coast of Africa near the Red Sea
A Scene on the Nile with a Dahabiyyah
Interior of the Temple of Karnak, Thebes Upper Egypt.
`Kusr-é-Syad. Opposite Choenoboscion. Upper Egypt'
Oriental Capriccio, with water, boats and buildings
Charge of Household Cavalry at Kassassin - 1882
Interior of the House of the Mufti Sheikh El Mahadi, Cairo
`Sand Stone Hills of the Mokattam Range "Sunset" between Beni-souef & Golosena'
`Abdul Samud - Persian General in Dost Mohd.s. Service Kabul'
Portrait of Sheikh Abdallah al Salem, Ruler of Kuwait
Portrait of Sultan Mahmud II of Turkey
Cairo
Courtyard and Maq'ad (Loggia) of the Mufti House in Cairo
Fellahin preparing the ground, with an overseer
Costume of the Persian Princess Broussa Turkey
A Street in Cairo
View of the Sultan's Barge in front of the Nusretiye Camii
Hurduwar, where the Ganges enters the plains of Hindoostan
Scene at Macao
With the Turks at Shipka - Allah! Allah! A Turkish charge after an unsuccessful assault by the Russians
Cairo
`Beni-Souef "On the Nile"
Figure d'une Femme Arabe de Alexandrie
Kassr Kajar, near Tehran
Sharia Bab al-Wazir with the Madrasah and Tomb of Sultan Shaban II (Umm al-Sultan)
Pyramids at Giza
Interior of the Mosque of Aya Sofya, Istanbul [Interior of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople]
Hazar Chum Mazenderan - Persia
A scene in Asia Minor
The Favourite Odalisque
Turkish Musicians in a coffee-house overlooking the Bosphorus
Storm on a N.African [?] coast
Sakka ou Porteur Deau Egyptien
Dervish Abdul Aziz - Suleiman Momd from Bagdad
A Street at Tangier
View in Guangzhou (Canton), China
Figure in Arab dress (probably Lord Kitchener) with a group of Arab men in front of a temple