A Turkish Bath (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, vol. I, pl. 10)

1723–24
Not on view
Hogarth made this print early in his career to illustrate a travel book by the French author Aubry de La Mottraye. The image of a woman bathing with the assistance of a servant derives from one in "Recueil de cent estampes représentant differéntes nations du Levant..." (A Collection of One Hundred Prints Representing Nations of the Levant, 1712-13). In that earlier publication plate 45, "La fille turque à qui l'on tresse les cheveux au bain" (Turkish girl having her hair dressed in a bath) was engraved by Jean Baptiste Haussard after Jean Baptiste Vanmour. Hogarth's print adapts Vanmour's figures to show the servant pouring water over her mistress, rather than arranging her hair, and adds a ceiling pierced with with round glass panes, an architectural feature that La Mottraye mentions seeing at a bathhouse at Tripoli.

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  • Title: A Turkish Bath (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...," London, 1724, vol. I, pl. 10)
  • Artist and engraver: William Hogarth (British, London 1697–1764 London)
  • Artist: After Jean-Baptiste Haussard (French, Paris 1679 or 1680–1749 Paris)
  • Artist: After Jean Baptiste Vanmour (French, Valenciennes 1671–1737 Istanbul (Constantinople))
  • Author: Related author Aubry de La Mottraye (French, ca. 1674–1743)
  • Date: 1723–24
  • Medium: Etching and engraving
  • Dimensions: sheet: 9 13/16 x 6 3/4 in. (24.9 x 17.1 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
  • Object Number: 32.35(218)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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