Tag: Xarifa
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Francis John Wyburd’s Xarifa, with Footnotes. #176
Scene on the walls of the city overlooking the field of battle. On the distant hills is seen the Spanish camp. Moors pass hastily across the stage, and look anxiously over the walls on the combatants beneath. Wyburd often painted Eastern subjects of a fashionable romantic kind, inevitably drawing at least some of his inspiration from…