The Songstress

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A young woman who wears a turban sits in a mountainous landscape and sings from a music book. The image illustrates "The Palace of Fortune, An Indian Tale" (1769), written by William Jones while still a student at Oxford (he later became a significant Orientalist scholar, high court judge in Calcutta, and was knighted). Little in the text relates directly to India, and Bunbury followed suit with generalized exotic elements.

The Songstress, John Raphael Smith (British, baptized Derby 1751–1812 Doncaster), Stipple engraving; first state of two

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