Plate 65: a jewish wedding in morocco held in an inner courtyard surrounded by walls on three sides, where to left a woman dances accompanied by three men seated on the ground, playing musical instruments, the evsnt attended by a small crowd of men,women and a child gathered around, someone holding out a tray to an elderly man, while to right two people descend a staircase from one overhead gallery, to left an arched opening in the wall an awning high up, attached to the beam of another overhead gallery; after delacroix
lithograph on grey chine collé. Date: circa 1848. Dimensions: Height: 185 mm (image); Width: 255 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Noce juive dans le Maroc (BM 1889,0608.439)
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