Four experts will introduce key sources, characters, and events during the Victorian period and offer some thoughts on their orientalising legacy today.
On the Banks of the Nile: John Frederick Lewis’s encounter with Upper Egypt
Briony Llewellyn, independent researcher
Beautiful ordinary things: ancient Egyptian domestic wares in the art of Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Prof Stephanie Moser, University of Southampton
Edward Poynter’s Israel in Egypt (1867): observation, reconstruction, and manipulation in art and history
Dr Robert Morkot, University of Exeter
Orientalist Landscapes: Constructing Images of Ancient and Modern Egypt
Prof Rachel Mairs, University of Reading
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Issue 66, December 2023
Turkey’s Centenary Issue
