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Le Paria Fit Un Signe a Sa Femme, Qui, Les Yeux Baisses Et Sans Parter Presenta Au Docteur Une Corbeille De Fleurs Et De Fruits

William Harvey (1796-1866)

Price
£2,250
Medium
Ink and watercolour
Dimensions
6 ¼ x 4 ¼ inches
Provenance
George Low, the Great-Great-Great Grandson of Sampson Low
Illustrated
Jacques-Henri Bernardin De St Pierre, La Chaumiere Indienne; Le Cafe De Surate, &C, Londres: Sampson Low/ Treuttel, Wurtz, Treuttel Fils & Richter [Ventouillac's Classiques Francais, vol 7], 1824, frontispiece (engraved by E I Roberts)
Exhibited
'The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1800-2014', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2014-January 2015, no 24

'The pariah made a sign to his wife, who, with downcast eyes and without speaking, presented a basket of flowers and fruits to the doctor.'

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814) was a French writer and one of the first to celebrate Cultural Primitivism, a central idea of the Romantic Movement.

In La Chaumière indienne (1790) 'The Indian Cottage’, a British scholar travels the world to gather answers to thousands of scientific questions. However, he finds that every answer only generates more questions. He eventually discovers wisdom in the cottage of an Indian outcast.

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